Child Welfare by Nigel Gordon

[Paul Wren]

I suppose one should start to expect the unexpected at the end of Nigel's stories but I must admit there was no way I expected the ending here. It left me feeling rather shocked and a bit uncomfortable - then that is probably what he intended. I am not sure if I like this story but it was certainly worth reading.

[Chris James]

With stories like Nigel's I am slowly gaining an appetite for the science fiction genre, not that I can eat too much of it at one time. Thanks, Nigel, I shall probably not appreciate my dinner as much this evening. Shock endings tend to do that.

[Rutabaga]

What they said above.

Talk about having the rug pulled out from under what seemed like the obvious assumptions.

R

[Cynus]

Nigel had me look over this story a couple of months ago. I loved it, and eagerly anticipated the reaction here.

I'm glad to see that it had the same effect on others as it had on me. :)

[Rutabaga]

It does kind of give new meaning to the concept of decadence.

R

[Jeff Ellis]

Oh, yes! Very cleverly done.

After all the hi-level goings on being revealed in the UK... anything seems possible.