Well, you can't get more speculative than having everything mysteriously vanish from your house, so I don't know that she'll be allowed to keep saying that.
I suppose that's true! I do consider myself somewhat genre-illiterate, though, especially when it comes to science fiction and fantasy, which simply didn't exist in our house, growing up. I think we had a copy of
The Hobbit tucked back in the second layer of paperbacks, and that's about it.
(And Jennifer, although our relationship is currently cordial, I really wish that (referring to your short-short in the
Boston Literary Magazine) you'd stop using my household as inspiration for your so-called fiction...
)
Your household, and every other one that's ever had an infant!
Except mine, of course.
