Many thanks to Managing Editor Joel Hans and
Fairy Tale Review for
asking me some great questions about automatons and dementia as part of their "Pins and Needles" series on the
Fairy Tale Review blog.
"For me, the uncanniness of wind-up toys and automatons is that they
enable the fantasy of our own reality—I am an independent,
self-sufficient individual with the agency to determine my own
future—while also undermining that fantasy."
My story "Wind-Up Toy" is in the current issue, the Mauve Issue, and you can read an excerpt of it below
the interview.