Available in the collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.
This story is a bit hit and miss for me. A lot more miss than hit. A bit of background and context might have made things a lot better.
After i finished reading it, i discovered that, apparently, it’s a Pinocchio spin off. Which is a bit late to find out. And maybe that’s the background and context that is utterly absent from this story. If a writer is going to use another book as background and context to a story then it might be a really, really good idea to at least mention in a fore-word to the story.
I’ve never read Pinocchio, so maybe i’ll go and read it sometime and then give this
