It’s subtle horror, in a creepypasta type of way, and it has its own internal, inexorable logic. When it got a Nebula nomination I reread it, and I was completely on board with it the second time around. The first time I read it I thought it was okay, maybe 3.5 star material. Two Truths and a Lie is one of those stories that gets more intriguing and impressive as you look more closely at it and examine its parts. As Stella investigates this old TV show with its unsettling host, she begins to notice the creepy stories that Uncle Bob would tell the children in the audience … stories that may have a lingering effect on the child they’re told to. Oddly, Marco says yes, and as he chats about Uncle Bob and his TV show, Stella begins to remember the show too, and even being part of the show’s child audience several times when it was being filmed at the local public broadcast station. Stella often lies about her life for no particular reason, so when she and Marco come across an aged TV set, she asks him if he remembers The Uncle Bob Show, something she had made up on the spot. She ends up impulsively volunteering to help her friend Marco clean out his brother Denny’s home - a major undertaking, since Denny was a massive hoarder. Some thirty years after graduating from high school and leaving her home town, Stella returns for a visit and attends the funeral of the older brother of one of her childhood friends. 4.5 stars - this creepy, excellent novelette is now a Nebula award nominee! Free to read online here at Tor.com.
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In some ways I was programmed to be an educator. Were taught that you can't live a fulfilling life without a good education, and so we wanted a good education. No one posed the question, Would we go to college? The only question was, Where would we go to college? We I had a sister eighteen months older and a My mother went to Wilberforce University, my father went to Knoxville College. My mother and father were both college graduates. I grew up in the 1940s in a family that was in some ways atypical for that time. "Because you have been given so much, much is required of you." And so the idea of being of service strongly motivates me. When I go back and look at my family and my community, I see, in bold letters, To say, "You can't know who you are if you don't know how you grew up." When I look at who I am today, I can see direct pathsīack to where I was born and who my family was. There's a proverb that goes, "You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been." 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