โ Scribed by Seanan McGuire
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
It is Thanksgiving week in the year 2000, as the contested presidential election drags on, and the boom years of the 90's are beginning to turn a corner. Frank has been treated for prostate cancer, his second wife has unexpectedly left him for her first husband, and at the age of 55, he spends a lot of time thinking about all the things he has never done, from hiking the Appalachian Trail to learning German to sleeping with a movie star. He spends even more time thinking up strategies for coping, ways to accommodate and negotiate the world without inflicting further damage on his already fragile sense of self.
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