%0 Journal Article %A Hinks, Jim %T ‘Green Boots’ Cave’ %D 2014 %J Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, %V 4 %N 1 %P 105-108 %@ 2043-071X %R https://doi.org/10.1386/fict.4.1.105_1 %K artifice %K short story %K transmogrification %K inexplicable %K Todorov %K uncanny %I Intellect, %X Abstract The short story ‘Green Boots’ Cave’ introduces an inexplicable phenomenon – that one might experience the events of an entire lifetime within a few moments – and plays this idea against recognizable, ‘real’ historical events. It follows Todorov’s notion of the process of reader adaptation to the inexplicable (as opposed to hesitation), described in The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. %U https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/fict.4.1.105_1