Alice Sola Kim

writer
Short Story

Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters


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  • Undetermined
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters


Because of Hwang’s problem, he ends up in odd, far future times, trying to make connections to his daughters.
Whenever Hwang goes to sleep, he jumps forward in time. This is a problem. This is not a problem that is going to solve itself.
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  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

Now Wait for This Week

  • by Alice Sola Kim
  • in The Cut, 17 January 2019 [e-zine] [The January 2022 online publication in The Cut is a preview story from A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams (One World, February 2019) [print · e-book].]

On the surface, the story seems to be about white, rich, cute Bonnie who knows she’s is living in a time loop in the week of her birthday and exploring it in a surprising variety of ways, but all this is on top of the story about Bonnie’s unknowing roommate, who through her narration of each iteration relates to us her life as a sexual assault survivor. —Michael Main
They told me that she showed up at their house yesterday, completely frazzled, telling a wild tale about a week that was repeating over and over again.
Multiple copies of a photo of a young woman with red lipstick and multicolored
                beads.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel