Thanks to a nudge from Joseph Aisenberg, let's proceed with a discussion of our (first?) short story. I chose "Cloud, Castle, Lake" because it was the only story to receive two nominations (from Eric Hyman and Jansy Mello) and because the text is available online at the Atlantic Monthly site
here.
Please read or reread the story and start sending your thoughts--annotations, speculations, raptures, recognitions of VN's style and subject matter, or what have you. As much as possible, I would like to organize the discussion from beginning to end, perhaps even by individual paragraphs. At any rate, I invite your comments on the opening paragraph now!
Contributions by subscribers who don't usually post to the List are particularly welcome!
:) SES