The Nose of Isabel Perez

By Eric Cline
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Published: Feb. 12, 2012
Words: 10,001 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465738110

Short description

THINGS ALWAYS LOOK STRANGE TO OUTSIDERS. Isabel Perez is about to turn 15 years old. Her quinceañera celebration that day will make her a woman. Unfortunately, on the planet of Nueva Concepción, you gain adulthood by losing your nose.

Extended description

THINGS ALWAYS LOOK STRANGE TO OUTSIDERS.

Isabel Perez is about to turn 15 years old. Her quinceañera celebration that day will make her a woman. Unfortunately, on the planet of Nueva Concepción, you gain adulthood by losing your nose.

BUT WHAT IF YOU START SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH OUTSIDERS' EYES? (Read more) THINGS ALWAYS LOOK STRANGE TO OUTSIDERS.

Isabel Perez is about to turn 15 years old. Her quinceañera celebration that day will make her a woman. Unfortunately, on the planet of Nueva Concepción, you gain adulthood by losing your nose.

BUT WHAT IF YOU START SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH OUTSIDERS' EYES?

Now, the long-isolated colony has been re-contacted by the rest of humanity. And Isabel will have to decide what she really believes in . . . and whose values she will follow.

A thought-provoking novelette of just under 10,000 words, using the tropes of science fiction to comment on the all-too-real phenomenon of human ritual mutilation.

Eric "Cruel" Cline, whose stories have been published in ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, EVERY DAY FICTION, and other places, delivers a thoroughly fresh novelette original to the web.

CONTAINS SOME DISTURBING IMAGERY.
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science fiction, starship, mutilation, colonization, culture clash, teen angst, paraguay, far future, guarani, cruel cline, quinceaera, quinceanera, cultural clash, paraguayan

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