Short Fiction: "29 Union Leaders Can't Be Wrong" by Genevieve Valentine

I've been meaning to do a post on last week's story at Strange Horizons.  Genevieve Valentine uses sparse, tight prose to tell a story of a man struggling to deal with the change in his life after receiving a full-body transplant.  It's plotted in a way that I found realistic and less mechanical than many recent reads.  The story never overpowers, never overstates its case.  It treats the reader as if it has a brain and lets you feel your own emotions by reacting.  It's very much the way I like to write personally.  I quite liked it.  I think it should also serve as an example to newer writers that your central SF idea is not the most important thing in a story--it's your execution of those ideas.  Recommended.