"What Sadie Saw."
By Michelle M. Kaseler (?-?).
First appearance: Daily Science Fiction, February 9, 2021.
Short short story (5 pages as a PDF).
Online at Daily Science Fiction (HERE).
"As a newly promoted detective, I'd been eager to try the ERS, but what if reliving the crime breaks Sadie?"
Is this the future of detection?
Named characters:
~ Cora Jenkins:
"Nice government scientist lady, a mom to boot, getting offed in her own house is chum for those sharks in the press, and we're out of suspects."
~ Sadie Jenkins:
"When I looked out again, I saw a man."
~ Colin Payne:
"Memories flood back."
~ Officer Caffrey:
"Now if you tell us who hired you, we might be able to keep you off death row."
Resources:
- Our author is very new to the SFF field; her short ISFDb bibliography is (HERE).
- The more technology advances, the more criminals should worry. Henry Kuttner anticipated the ERS in today's story over seventy years ago; see our posting about his technoproleptic story "Private Eye" (HERE).
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I'll definitely have to get around to reading that Henry Kuttner story.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with technology in crime fiction is not that it makes things hard for criminals, it's the fact that it makes it hard for detectives to be clever.
"The trouble with technology in crime fiction is not that it makes things hard for criminals, it's the fact that it makes it hard for detectives to be clever." So true. That's why the longer information is withheld from the reader/viewer the cleverer the sleuth looks, e.g., MONK, DEATH IN PARADISE, JONATHAN CREEK, etc.
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