“The Alice Run” by Nancy Kress

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Rating: 3/5 Stars

An entertaining story of an experiment being performed by researchers on a comatose person to try to revive her. Stimulating her brain causes her to start to dream or hallucinate, which eventually turns out to be scenes connected to the story, “Alice in Wonderland”. But the dream deviates by featuring guns, attacks, and connections to people she knows, each appearing more and more often until finally, the truth is revealed about why she ended up comatose, which results in a violent confrontation in the real world.

Story read from 2024/08/23 to 2024/08/23