I’ve decided to do a new feature by the 7th of each new month.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0As you can guess, I highlight a short story that makes an impression on me.\u00c2\u00a0 The story may not have been published in that particular month or the previous month\u00c2\u00a0– the only qualification is that I read the story after\u00c2\u00a0the previous Story of the Month.<\/p>\n
The first short story I’d like to highlight is “Nanny” by Jane Chirgwin.\u00c2\u00a0 It was published in Volume 10 Issue 1 of The First Line<\/a><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 You can purchase the individual issue for $3.50 or get a year’s subscription for $12.\u00c2\u00a0 (Sorry – there doesn’t seem to be any excerpts posted anywhere for you to read it online.)\u00c2\u00a0 The thing I love about The First Line<\/em> is that all of the stories begin the same but they usually go in completely different directions after that.<\/p>\n “Nanny” is about a robot programmed to function as a nanny but who is so much more than that word or function.\u00c2\u00a0 The label is limiting but the robot’s programming allows her to be adaptable to her environment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Nanny’s programming tells her to correct grammar but the status or situation may make her think better of it.<\/p>\n While most of the adults at the mine are busy with their jobs, Nanny and three adults supervise twenty-three children in a playroom.\u00c2\u00a0 Activities are age appropriate; for example, older kids learn about science while younger kids learn their colors.\u00c2\u00a0 The details Chirgwin provides makes life at the mine seem like it is the near future.<\/p>\n As with many good stories or tales, an outside force sets events in motion that could result in change or growth for the main character.\u00c2\u00a0 In imaginative ways Chirgwin takes the ordinary and turns it around.\u00c2\u00a0 Ultimately it’s the humanity in Nanny that made the story special to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve decided to do a new feature by the 7th of each new month.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0As you can guess, I highlight a short story that makes an impression on me.\u00c2\u00a0 The story may not have been published in that particular month or the previous month\u00c2\u00a0– the only qualification is that I read the story after\u00c2\u00a0the previous Story… Continue reading Story of the Month – “Nanny”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-of-the-month","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}