Slipping
Seanan McGuire
A slippery slope
Slipping is Seanan McGuire's Patreon reward for May-2023. She introduces it as follows,
(Image: My sister's calico sphinx, Lizzy, looking baleful in a blanket.)
This month's story is a deeply upsetting exploration of the slippery slope, and the laws of unintended consequences. Because it touches on current events which some people may not want to find in their fiction, I've also re-posted "Face Your Furs," which has somehow become the lighter offering. How...?
CW for Slipping: Transphobia, weaponized political language, child abuse both accused and actualized through neglect, family separation, homophobia, death.
CW for Face Your Furs: Big corporations are not your friends, body horror, nanotech gone horribly wrong.
It is a brief, grim story about an imagined dystopia to which the rhetoric of the Republican Party (USA) might lead.
I previously reviewed Face Your Furs here.