...Hello? :) (I know 'tis the season to be anonymous, but just wondering if you're someone I've talked to about Connie Willis before?)
The story I'm thinking of is called "And Come from Miles Around," and is in her first story collection Fire Watch. It's a brief, very understated story starring a stay-at-home mom, so understated I don't think I got it the first time I read it (I was also in high school at the time, though :) ) It may be the only story I know of that stars a stay-at-home mom (friends have recced a couple of others to me, but I haven't got around to them yet).
And, okay, honestly, now that I think about it a little more, she doesn't save the world at all, but for anyone who's been in the situation described in the story, it probably felt to the people around her a bit like she did ;)
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Re: What Connie Willis story?
Date: 2012-10-15 08:26 pm (UTC)The story I'm thinking of is called "And Come from Miles Around," and is in her first story collection Fire Watch. It's a brief, very understated story starring a stay-at-home mom, so understated I don't think I got it the first time I read it (I was also in high school at the time, though :) ) It may be the only story I know of that stars a stay-at-home mom (friends have recced a couple of others to me, but I haven't got around to them yet).
And, okay, honestly, now that I think about it a little more, she doesn't save the world at all, but for anyone who's been in the situation described in the story, it probably felt to the people around her a bit like she did ;)