Short story by Kij Johnson
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" is a fantasy short story by American writer Kij Johnson , published in 2008 on the American magazine Asimov's Science Fiction Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story .[1] World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction and the Asimov's readers' award for best short story.
Plot summary
Aimee has bought a travelling monkey show, wherein 26 monkeys do a variety of tricks and then vanish. She tries to figure out how the vanishing happens.
World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction
1975–2000
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"Mackintosh Willy" by Ramsey Campbell (1980, tie)
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