A review by dr_matthew_lloyd
Lightspeed Magazine, April 2014 by John Joseph Adams

3.0

"The Day the World Turned Upside Down" is an extended metaphor about a whiney young man whose girlfriend leaves him right before the eponymous disaster strikes. The whiney young man (Toby) then embarks across the upside-down world to find Sophie, the girlfriend in question, and to return her goldfish, Bubbles. The metaphor is well done, the writing (translating?) fine, and the story is really only let down by the impossibility with having any sympathy whatsoever with Toby.