Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes...

Millicent Eidson

Millicent hails from the Southwest but now lives with her family in Vermont. She has made a career as a public health veterinarian and is a faculty member at the University of Albany and the University of Vermont. Her voluminous publications include scientific papers, article and book chapters. And she discusses public health communication on a podcast. Her Maya Maguire microbial mysteries and drama have won awards.

“Not a Normal Holiday” requires attentive readers. And that is precisely the point: only such readers will realize that the story is alternate history. And only perceptive readers will understand that the relatively minor changes it depicts in 20th-century history challenge readers to choose the world they want to live in.

In the alternate timeline, some readers will say that the narrator’s loss of husband, son and daughter are, if not exactly “normal,” at least expectable, And some will say they’re even deserved. Be warned: the alternate world is not so far away.

Millicent Eidson’s bio sketch can be found here.

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