The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History

Title: The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History
By: Sam J. Miller
Published in: Uncanny Magazine, Issue Two (Jan/Feb 2015)
Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "An alternate/fantastic account of the 1969 Stonewall raid, in which the gays not only fight back, they do so in “the first public demonstration of the supernatural phenomenon that would later be called by names as diverse as collective pyrokinesis, group magic, communal energy, polykinesis, multipsionics, liberation flame, and hellfire.” This is essentially a recollection of the event from multiple fictional points of view, using the polykinesis as a metaphor for the collective rage felt by the group’s victims; thus only minimally SFnal....."Category:Best Short Story