I went to the Asimov’s site to complete my voting for the Readers Choice Awards (you can do the same here), and I had a horrible realization.  Writers are terrible at titles that make you recall the story. Because I was in a hurry, I didn’t make a list of the stories I liked.  I just went from memory.  I did fine in the novella and novelette categories, but when it came to the short stories, I was stumped.  I knew there were stories that I liked, but I couldn’t recall them from the titles, and I didn’t have time to go look at the first paragraphs of the stories to bring the story back into my head. So you short fiction folks of the generic one-word titles, I’m sorry.  If I liked … Read entire article »