Many of author Maureen McHugh's stories explore the relationship between moms and their children—an element that’s often sidelined in fantasy and science fiction.
had written a story called ‘Bicycle Repairman,'” McHugh says, “and in that story the protagonist—who is a 20-something bicycle repairman in a cyberpunk world—talks to his mother on the phone. And Karen said offhandedly, ‘I always like to see mothers in stories,’ and I started thinking about that a lot.”
For years McHugh only wrote stories about mothers who are beleaguered and nice. She reversed that to chilling effect in her 2011 story “After the Apocalypse,” about a mother and daughter struggling to survive in the wake of a dirty bomb attack. “Eventually said to me, ‘Why don’t you write a story about a bad mother?'” McHugh says. “It took me a long time to wrap my head around it and be able to write it.”. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.It’s a great writing town, weirdly enough.
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