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jessilyn, October 11, 2008

Washington Post Review
Roundup: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Weird tales from the future -- and from a shadowy present.
Reviewed by Edward Champion
Sunday, October 12, 2008; Page BW11

CRAZY LOVE By Leslie What | Wordcraft of Oregon. Paperback, 200 pp. $13.95

Leslie What's wild and risk-taking fantasy tales have been largely overlooked, but her latest short story collection offers a great opportunity for wider attention. "Babies" is a blistering allegory of motherhood that fuses together bug exterminators, marital problems and obsessive solicitude in 13 pitch-perfect pages. The story's heroine carries the "extra weight" and protective quality of human pregnancy, while mothering cockroaches that "always came to her side whenever the bugman sprayed the landlord's kitchen." "Paper Mates" is a clever story in which paperwork quite literally reproduces like rabbits. What's stories, like Ray Bradbury's and Richard Matheson's, rely on high concepts to carry the narratives forward, but her prose works best when it is concise. Nearly every tale offers an unexpected surprise, but never feels too gimmicky. This is a universe in which one should never underestimate a woman in a ratty gorilla suit, even if her ability to "speak" with gorillas may very well be her only means of communication.

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