![]() The house’s inhabitant live in a strange game of King of the Mountain, which each of them attempting to gain access to the attic space and the windows onto the world which exist up there, a position held at the opening of the story by Azazel. ![]() Some of them seem catlike, others snakelike, but their memories indicate some level of sentience and possibly humanity in their background. ![]() The house is apparently abandoned except for some sort of feral creatures living in it, possibly human, possibly animal. Harris is never quite clear about what is happening in the titular house, or at least now who it is happening to. In “The House,” Harris creates a self-contained society that has arisen after some sort of undefined event which changed the nature of those who inhabited the house. More recently, she published the novels Amaranth and Ash and All the Colors of Love using the pseudonym Jessica Freely, and the novels of the Libyrinthsequence using the name Pearl North. Her short story “Still Life with Boobs” was on the 2006 Nebula Award ballot for Best Short Story. In 1999, Harris received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for her novel Accidental Creatures and her book Inventing Memory appeared on the 2005 James Tiptree, Jr. Harris’s first novel was The Nature of Smoke. ![]()
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