DISCOUNT ARMAGEDDON open thread!

Did anyone else think, "Huh, wasn't she worried about James? Poor dude gets dumped in a closet, abandoned, and Verity doesn't worry about his ass at all until the end of the book?" (Well, at least it came up at the end of the book.) Yeah, yeah, I know she's busy and needs to get the Covenant guy out of there, but I still uh, wondered a bit.

Anyhoo, I had a good time. I look forward to more Prices. Especially backstories of Prices, and finding out how deadly Antimony is 'cause I think I'm already scared. Oh yeah, and where all the family cryptids come from. I think I want a longer family tree than just the last couple of branches, though. I think I am getting mixed up with all of the great-grandmother quotes in the epigraphs. (Uh...Verity's mom is Evelyn, whose mom is a cuckoo... dad's side, Alice is the grandma, possibly Frances's kid, and I'm not sure where Enid comes in...erk, yeah, there's a lot I'm missing somewhere.)

I think a family tree is planned in the future for the website where the short stories are.

What I know (I think): Enid and Alexander Healy were the ones who broke away from the Covenant and came to America.
Their son Jonathan married Frances Brown. (Jonathan and Fran are featured in a couple of short stories available for free on Seanan's website.)
Jonathan and Frances had Alice, who is one of the two grandmothers Verity talks about (she's the one currently spelunking in Hell.)
Alice married Thomas Price, who'd been sent by the Covenant to America to try to convince the Healys to come back, and instead stayed.
Alice and Thomas had Kevin (Verity's father) and Jane. Jane married Theodore Harrington and they have two kids, Artie and Elsie.

On the other side, there's Verity's other grandmother, Angela, who's one of the two sane Cuckoos we know.
Angela is married to a revenant. They adopted Evelyn (Verity's mother). (They later also adopted Sarah.)

So when Verity says great-grandmother, she means Fran, and when she says great-great-grandmother, she means Enid. When she says grandmother she either means Alice (her dad's side) or Angela (her mom's side).

Oooh, that helps. Thanks! I keep thinking there are some people I am missing in between Enid and Frances somehow. Maybe it's the "seven generations" thing when it's really more like five?

*shrug* I get confused on cousins once removed, too.

IIRC, Enid's grandmother, Caroline Davies, was the one who took in the Aeslin mice after she found them worshiping the family poultry. So five generations of Healys have been on the run from the Covenant, but the Aeslin mice have been with the family for seven generations.

Okay, that makes more sense, then!

Did manage to guess that Caroline was the first finder of the mice, at least.

I got confused on great-grandmother when it mentioned that her great-grandfather came back from Colorado looking at Apraxis wasps with a fiancee, when we know that Jonathan met Fran in New Mexico looking for something quite different (Flower Of Arizona).

Ohhh, okay. I read the line as the fiancee being someone he met there, is why it confused me.

Where might one find this "Flower of Arizona" tale? Is it still available?

I'm so excited by the concept of more Price family goodness ;)

It's in the anthology Westward Weird!

Ouch.