Apprehensions and Other Delusions by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro [Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Horror, Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction, short stories
Publisher: Event Horizon EBooks
Published: 2015-07-29T04:00:00+00:00

About Inappropriate Laughter

When I first wrote this, back in 1997, I hadn’t a clue where I could sell it. It falls in between so many forms that it ends up belonging in none of them. The Spook on-line magazine finally took it—trimmed down by 2,000 words—in 2002, and it is in that form that you see it now.

The story’s experiential inception, I think, stems from a memorial service I attended when I was 18. Two of my friends got the giggles about halfway through the event, and from that point on, small explosions of not-very-well-suppressed laughter punctuated the expressions of grief I remember wishing they could/would stop, but that seemed impossible. For the next five months the two regularly apologized for causing such an uproar, admitting that they couldn’t recall why it had seemed funny to them. Certainly their chagrin has infused the story, along with a host of implications that may or may not account for what is happening.

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