Status Updates From The Night Gift

This is interesting on its own, but it is set very close to where I live, just 40 years ago, which is an odd and interesting feeling.

Joslyn's realization about Neil and Barbara is so well done and deeply felt.

Joslyn's realization about Neil and Barbara is so well done and deeply felt.

Joslyn's realization about Neil and Barbara is so well done and deeply felt.

Meandering, summertime feel so far.

"I got a sudden vision of a father sea horse rocking sedately in the middle of the ocean with his tummy open, and tiny, perfect sea horses, grave as gentlemen, drifting out of him like thoughts."

probably a bit perverse of me to pick up this atypical early work when I have recent McKillips sitting unread on the shelf. But my mum called me Contrary for a reason...