Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Dar Williams, "Promised Land."

"I think I messed up, Rose..."

With a lot of road behind her and a lot of road left to go, Rose Marshall—the Shadow of Sparrow Hill Road—is only starting to understand just how the stakes are capable of getting. The darker story is beginning to show through, and even the dead may not survive it.

Issue 51 of The Edge of Propinquity is live, and with it, the third of the Sparrow Hill Road stories is available. "Tell Laura I Love Her" offers a glimpse into Rose's past, and the way that it can echo forward to destroy her future. But how much future is there, really, for someone who died more than fifty years ago?

There are a lot of stories trapped and tangled in the twilight. This is only one of them. But it's the one I have to tell.

Give a girl a ride?

Tags: short fiction, sparrow hill road
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keristor

March 15 2010, 20:49:28 UTC 7 years ago

I believe I may have mentioned that I'm not into the 'horror' genre. That may be because no one I've ever read in that genre is as good at it as you are. You aren't doing it to be shocking, you are telling a story -- Rose's story in this case -- which happens to fall into that genre, and gets the label, but the story and the way you tell it transcend the genre. And I think you're doing that with all your writing, it just happens to be classified as different genres but in fact it's just damn good storytelling and the only real classification is "Seanan McGuire" and they'd better start labelling up the shelves in the library like that...

seanan_mcguire

March 18 2010, 15:33:10 UTC 7 years ago

Awwww. Thanks, sweetie. :)