Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Sometimes the mice sing...bad songs.

It's time for some free fiction, and for checking in on Verity and Dominic as they continue their trip from New York to Oregon, with plenty of stops along the way. They've weathered their time at the Carmichael Hotel with no fatalities. So where to next?

Why, back to Buckley Township, Michigan.

No tour of the history of the American Price family would be complete without a stop in Buckley. That's where Enid and Alexander settled down; where Jonathan brought home the Fabulous Fran, Star of New Mexico; where Alice Healy met Thomas Price. That's where it began.

It isn't where it ended.

You can download the new story now from the InCryptid short fiction page. Please download and save to read locally, rather than trying to read on my poor server.

This also serves as your discussion post.
Tags: cheese and cake, giving stuff away, incryptid, short fiction
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Question: Healy's in PA

acf151

February 23 2016, 05:08:10 UTC 1 year ago

From what I remember, Alexander and Enid Healy (not sure about Jonathan) spent a little bit of time in Pennsylvania before moving to Buckley after a Covenant agent visited. How long did they stay there? The text in this story makes it seem as though they came straight to Michigan from England.
I just remember being thrilled that they had considered PA as a place to settle.
Thank you for this story.

I loved seeing how, Dominic, once committed, is committed, but he still understands why Verity is concerned about their relationship.

It was interesting, the dialogue about [Spoiler (click to open)]"It's adorable how you apply [conservation before extermination] to things that want to eat you alive" and how he sees the line between "don't kill everything not human" and "it's trying to kill people, kill it", especially given what Basil had to tell Alex in Pocket Apocalypse.
If Thomas is alive, and if Alice finds him, it'll be interesting to see how he and Dominic and the Thirty-sixers hit it off.

The Healys and the Prices have been existing in a sort of vacuum consisting of family, and Cryptids who were aware of their Covenant past and trying to be able to coexist with them. As the family grows with new perspectives, I wonder how their "conservation before extermination" philosophy will change.
Verity and Alex both clearly know there's a line, given their exploits in the books, but I feel they put that line in a different place than Enid, Alexander, or Fran would.
[Spoiler (click to open)]You mentioned the circus in this story, which answered a lot of questions I had about where Kevin and Jane were while Alice hunted for Thomas. Were some of the changes in where the generations draw this line due to this upbringing, rather than in a strictly Healy/Price house?