Zeppelin Follies
By Cat Rambo
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In a wacky world filled with advertising zeppelins, muffin-baking robots, and software-generated fiction, a writer finds herself pursued by heiress Mimsy and her ambitious servitor. This short story originally appeared in online magazine Crossed Genres and is reprinted in Rambo's collection, Near + Far.
Working with a future reminiscent of Fritz Leiber's The Silver Metal Eggheads or The Green Millenium, Rambo creates a screwball romance with genuine affection for the genre. Her use of deft humor, wry cynicism, and lyrical language create a world with her usual masterful craftsmanship and engaging storytelling.
Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo (they/them) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whose work has appeared in, among others, Asimov's, Weird Tales, Chiaroscuro, Talebones, and Strange Horizons. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where they studied with John Barth and Steve Dixon, they also attended the Clarion West Writers' Workshop. They are currently the managing editor of Fantasy Magazine. They published a collection of stories, Eyes Like Sky And Coal And Moonlight, and their collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories, appeared in 2007. They live and write in Washington State, and “Cat Rambo” is their real name.
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Zeppelin Follies - Cat Rambo
Zeppelin Follies
Copyright 2014 Cat Rambo
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This story originally appeared in Crossed Genres, 2011.
Zeppelin Follies
It’s an unfortunate fact that Bodys break down with age. In this case, one of my heels was coming loose, and with two legs, that ended up being more destabilizing than if I’d opted for a model with four or six. Back before we'd split up, my girlfriend Sally had always been the one to remind me to get maintenance. We'd go together, two happy female lovers holding hands as they walked along, and sometimes people would smile when they'd see us, because we'd gotten matching Bodys in the Danish style that Sally favored.
Inside them, we were as different as night and day: Sally was dark and beautiful, and I was brown haired and ordinary, although pleasant looking, or so Sally always said, right up to the day she moved out.
So I got up early that Thursday morning and walked down the block to the Repair Shoppe to ask Laura, my mechanic, to take a look at it before work.
The shop was busy that day, and a phalanx of athletes were in, getting their stabilizers adjusted en masse and chatting about rugby scores. Like everyone else, I like to keep up on the ways to express my individuality, so I spent some time windowshopping.
New models of Bodys hung along the walls: retro robotics in chrome