Rick Wilber posted an entry

I woke up this first day of March in 2020 to a long and extremely perceptive Locus Magazine review of my Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination collection from WordFire Press. The book will be out in a few weeks and I'll be posting material from it and about it over the rest of the month.
The review says two of the stories, in particular, “lend Wilber’s voice a kind of authority and compassion that have helped him carve out a niche identifiably his own. These are sports (usually, but not always baseball) and parenthood, particularly the challenges presented by a child with Down syndrome or an aging and diminishing parent.”
The review also says “The most accomplished and heartbreaking family portrait is ‘Prices.’” (And I'm really, really pleased to see that story praised in this fashion. The story ran in Gulf Stream Review and didn't get any reviewer attention at the time. The story is about a dead father communicating with the trouble adult son who served as his caregiver. The communication may or not be real, but the emotional values, I'd like to think, are very real, indeed.
The review concludes with "Wilber is at his best with families, and the balance between a life of comfortable mediocrity and the chance to do “something real”—as Moe Berg puts it—seems to haunt his fiction and gives it a distinct and memorable, if at times almost elegiac, sensibility.”
I'm truly humbled by that. And yes, that nails my core interest and aim in much of my fiction. I have an adult Down syndrome son I've written about a lot, and a family background in professional sports (my father was a major-league baseball player back in the 1950s) and both of those things crop up a lot in my stories. Oh, and there are a lot of aliens cropping up and and again in my stories and novels; but now, I don't actually know any of those.