This is my tribute to Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It appeared in a short form (4,000 words) in Daily Science Fiction and in longer form (7,000 words) in the collection Near+Far.
It made the Tangent Online 2012 Recommended Reading List.
(science fiction, flash story) They kept telling us what high ratings his show was getting. All of us bit players should be proud, the producers said. When he couldn’t see us, we celebrated, giving each other high fives while we waited for him to appear and pass. When he came into sight, we’d act as we’d been instructed. He wasn’t to know that it was a show.
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