Review: Story fragment
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2013
Like some of Turner's other stories (Tournament at Bergum, for example) this story suffers from the author's choice to use deliberately difficult and obscuring language (sometimes to comedic effect as words don't mean precisely what the author seems to think they do) and the choice to present what seems like should be a larger story in truncated short story format.  Dore, the main character, is a novice in a monastic order who begins receiving communications from a source that is never fully explained, but is otherworldly.  The communication, and her subsequent decent into hedonism, combined to make her powerful.  And then -- well, I don't want to spoil it, but nothing much happens in this story.I don't know if the thought was that we would pay for subsequent stories or if this is truly supposed to satisfy as a standalone, but I was left feeling letdown.