REVIEW: “The Black and White” by Aigner Loren Wilson

Review of Aigner Loren Wilson, “The Black and White,” Fantasy Magazine 84 (October 2022): 17-21 — Read here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

Content note: Reference to sexual assault.

This was a dark little story of retribution. Sometimes when reading a story, I wonder “why this story?”, i.e., why of all the stories did an author choose to write this one? I don’t have that question here, as I can feel why an author would want to write a story like this; but I am left with this question from the reader’s point of view: Why would I, the reader, want to read this story? I’m not sure…