As fiction, the story is framed through my own lens. This
can’t be helped, though my characters get equal attention, and, I hope, each
has their own perspective. All, however, live real lives. There are no
princesses or goddesses, dystopic futures or dark secrets which come back to
haunt everyone. In this blog I have elucidated my positions, though in the
fiction they are simply embodied.
The beginning means that I must now begin to talk about the
books more! At least I think I will. One never knows. The books have nothing to
say about our current crisis around COVID-19, a world-wide pause which has
caught us all unaware. But someday the period between 1950 and 2010, when the
fictive lives of my characters ends, may be interesting to people. Polio, which
Paul has in the mid 1950’s, was certainly a frightening epidemic at the time.
