K. Tempest Bradford

Ruby is a self motivated proto-entomologist who finds a very strange bug and in posting a picture on Twitter - which she has been forbidden to use, causes herself, her family, her friends, and her neighbors various difficulties and excitement. Not to mention government agents. Meanwhile Ruby's science teacher is trying to convince her to be less ambitious in her science project about bees. Ruby uses scientific methods to evaluate what she has observed - and the conclusions are both accurate and influenced by conspiracy theories.… (mehr)

A mom gets emotional when her children start leaving home, but is placated by pets... which she calls by her children's names. Cute play on the title, but I knew how the story was going to go almost immediately, and there wasn't any real explanation - was the mom doing it, or was it just happening? This story could have been a lot more effective if there had been either some more ambiguity (i.e. if the pets had been somehow abnormal) or more explanation, but as it was it felt like it was missing something.… (mehr)