Another author who likes to write flight-of-fancy stories.
“I am an employee of Grand Stand-In, a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider. It’s pretty simple. With so many new families popping up, upwardly mobile couples with new children, there is a segment of this demographic, more than you would think, who no longer have any living parents. So many of these new parents feel their children are missing out on a crucial part of their life experience, a grandparent. And that’s where I come in.”
As the story progresses, the narrator starts to question the work she is doing. This is a story I find hard to resist, an author working with an unusual idea and running with it.
Published in Tunnelling to the Centre of the Earth, Ecco/Harper Collins, 2009
A Personal Anthology 