Bewildering Stories welcomes...

Carl Taylor

Carl lives with his family in New Jersey and has retired recently from a career as a divorce lawyer. His short stories have been published extensively.

“A Most Terrific Day” will impress readers with its effective dramatization of a father who is being taken by his son to a peculiar destination. The day is “terrific” for some but terrifying for the father.

And readers will have questions: Wlll Dad be euthanized or shipped off to Mars in an attempt to “conserve resources”? What will 11-year old Gerald do without parents? Why has Gerald decided to dispose of Dad? Is the father’s age a criterion? What happens to a society that has only youth and no elders?

Some 70 years ago, Isaac Asimov’s Pebble in the Sky set the standard for stories about population control done by offing the elderly, and science fiction has exploited the topic relentlessly ever since. “A Most Terrific Day” is unusual in giving the viewpoint of one who is about to be sacrificed.

Carl Taylor’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Carl. We hope to hear from you again soon and often!