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Winter Rose

Patricia McKillip
Nebula 1996 nomination

Dream-like poem story exploring the heights and depths of relationship, romantic love. How can something so good be so bad? How can something so bad transcend existence and flower into multi-faceted freedoms?

Home-spun, sad, haunting contemplation and appreciation for the human side of life. "...wishes blur so easily into truth." and "My father married just as Nial Lynn married: a woman who had strayed into an accidental smile in his eyes."

McKillip's dedication reads, "for us all" and from "us all" I would like to thank her for this lyric wisdom, this parable of fairy-tale bread crumbs pointing toward a path through the dark forests of modern relationship.

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