dedication

[Bluey Lunger]

…this story is special for what it doesn’t tell us…spooky scary for the same reason…we’re not told how mama delorme fixed it so martha rosewall does what she does…but we believe it…i do, anyway…there’s so much the reader doesn’t know, isn’t told straight up, but that doesn’t stop us from believing everything happened just the way martha tells darcy sagamore it happened.

… all these people going on about their business while there’s this whole other level at work…makes you wonder…and then there’s the characterization of mama delorme, a kind of mother abigail/rhea of the coos…that unexplained scar, for example…or what she does to make martha do what needs doing…this story got under my skin the first time through, it did again, this time through, and it does it by NOT telling us everything! great ghost story!

all that stuff left unknown, unsaid!

[Manxkitti]

This is one of my favorites from Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Probably because of the creep factor.

[brandon]

Ever notice the similarities between this story and the whole "chap" business in DT? In both stories, the women gave birth to children of men they had never slept with. They came to carry the children instead by some strange (and yes Bluey, largely unexplained) default process.

[Bluey Lunger]

Ever notice the similarities between this story and the whole "chap" business in DT? In both stories, the women gave birth to children of men they had never slept with. They came to carry the children instead by some strange (and yes Bluey, largely unexplained) default process.

i'm all flustered. hit the 'welcome' button when i meant 'quote'. hehehe. and no, i didn't notice the similarities and thank you for pointing them out. neat-o. makes me want to read this story again...thinkin of that other story, too, 'the breathing method'...the details of which are foggy enough to warrant a reread there, as well....argh! so much to read! so little time!