{"id":5950,"date":"2016-07-13T20:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2021-05-30T20:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T00:29:03","slug":"moonlight-vines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5950","title":{"rendered":"Moonlight & Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moonlight & Vines<\/a><\/em> (1999) Charles de Lint<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Moonlight-and-Vines\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSweetgrass & City Streets\u201d
\n\u201cSaskia\u201d
\n\u201cIn This Soul of a Woman\u201d
\n\u201cThe Big Sky\u201d
\n\u201cBirds\u201d
\n\u201cPassing\u201d
\n\u201cHeld Safe by Moonlight and Vines\u201d
\n\u201cIn the Pines\u201d
\n\u201cShining Nowhere but in the Dark\u201d
\n\u201cIf I Close My Eyes Forever\u201d
\n\u201cHeartfires\u201d
\n\u201cThe Invisibles\u201d
\n\u201cSeven for a Secret\u201d
\n\u201cCrow Girls\u201d
\n\u201cWild Horses\u201d
\n\u201cIn the Land of the Unforgiven\u201d
\n\u201cMy Life as a Bird\u201d
\n\u201cChina Doll\u201d
\n\u201cIn the Quiet After Midnight\u201d
\n\u201cThe Pennymen\u201d
\n\u201cTwa Corbies\u201d
\n\u201cThe Fields Beyond the Fields\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Moonlight-Vines\"<\/p>\n

\u201cSweetgrass & City Streets\u201d is a poem.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaskia\u201d first appeared in Space Opera (1996) and is the introduction of Saskia to Christie and to the series.<\/p>\n

What no one seems to realize is that she\u2019s always paying attention. She listens to you when you talk instead of waiting impatiently for her own turn to hold forth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Humanity\u2019s whole unfortunate history is one long account of how we attack what we don\u2019t understand, what\u2019s strange to us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIn This Soul of a Woman\u201d first appeared in Love in Vein (1994). This isn’t a favorite. I don’t think vampires really and truly belong in Newford.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what does your name mean?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018Granddaughter.\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n

Nita laughed. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you find so humorous?\u201d <\/p>\n

Nita flicked her cigarette against the nearest wall which it struck in a shower of sparks. \u201cSounds to me like your grandmother just found a fancy way of not giving you a name.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe Big Sky\u201d first appeared in Heaven Sent (1995)<\/p>\n

This is another that isn’t a particular favorite, again, because this kind of ghost story (although unusual) just didn’t feel quite right for Newford.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have always been sparing with your kindnesses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I want to not be that person.<\/p>\n

\u201cBirds\u201d first appeared in The Shimmering Door (1996) and is the story of two young women, finding their own ways of dealing with their past traumas.<\/p>\n

\u201cPassing\u201d was first published in Excalibur (1995) and is another story that felt like it was squished into Newford rather than being a story that started in Newford on its own. It’s not bad, but it just doesn’t feel quite right to be set in Newford. I guess there are a lot of stories in this particular anthology that strike me that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeld Safe by Moonlight and Vines\u201d first appeared in Castle Perilous (1996). Now this story I really like. Alex and Lillie grew up together, but their lives were very very different.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only ever wanted one thing,\u201d I tell her, \u201cbut I never had it to lose.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even know what it is that I\u2019ve lost,\u201d she says. \u201cI just know something\u2019s gone. I had a chance to have it, to hold it and cherish it, but I let it go.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIn the Pines\u201d first appeared in Destination Unknown (1997). This is another favorite from this anthology. Darlene has made her way in the world playing music, and sometimes making it. She escaped her family initially by visiting her Aunt Hickory, and then with what her Aunt Hickory gave her. It’s a lovely ghost story.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter how bad it gets, the pain goes away. Sometimes you got to die to stop hurting, but the hurting stops.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cShining Nowhere but in the Dark\u201d first appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Vol. 3, No. 1, (1996) is a story of death and dreaming.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I Close My Eyes Forever\u201d is about finding the right person. Not a favorite, for no reason I can put my finger on.<\/p>\n

I hate being alone. I think that\u2019s why my relationships always fall apart. I\u2019ve got too much need. I am too intense\u2014 just like Peter said. But that\u2019s because when I\u2019m alone, I think too much. My imagination gets carried away with itself. I imagine the worst. I start to believe there really is a burglar lurking about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHeartfires\u201d first appeared as a limited edition chapbook (1994). It’s the story of Jolene, Bear, Alberta, and Crazy Crow. (They often make brief appearances in other stories.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just living,\u201d she tells the caged woman. \u201cThose aren\u2019t bars, they\u2019re the bones that hold you together. You keep clawing at them, you\u2019ll make yourself so sick you\u2019re going to die for sure.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t breathe in here,\u201d the caged woman says. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not paying attention,\u201d the Lady of the White Deer says. \u201cAll you\u2019re doing is breathing. Stop breathing and you\u2019ll be clawing at those same bones, trying to get back in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bones of her prison weren\u2019t there to keep her from getting out. They were there to keep her together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe Invisibles\u201d first appeared in David Copperfield\u2019s Beyond Imagination (1997). It’s the story of dreams and memories and believing yourself away from the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeven for a Secret\u201d first appeared in Immortal Unicorn (1995). It’s the story of Malicorn and Jake, Staley and William. (Staley and her fiddle appear later.)<\/p>\n

\u201cCrow Girls\u201d first appeared as a limited edition chapbook (1995). This is the introduction to the Crow Girls, who are some of my favorite characters. But it’s not really about the Crow Girls–it’s about Jilly’s friend Heather, and how the Crow Girls change you, just by their being.<\/p>\n

\u201cWild Horses\u201d first appeared in Tarot Fantastic (1997) is the story of siblings and family and love and forgiveness.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Land of the Unforgiven\u201d is another story about an ex-con, and whether some things are so beyond the pale, that sometimes people have no choice but to take their own action. This is a particularly dark story.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Life as a Bird\u201d first appeared as a limited edition chapbook (1996). This is the story of how Mona meets Nacky Wilde. I really like this story–most especially the ending. <\/p>\n

\u201cChina Doll\u201d first appeared in The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (1998). This is another story I didn’t particularly like. It’s dark (as many of his stories are) but it’s more depressing than normal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Quiet After Midnight\u201d first appeared in Olympus (1998). <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pennymen\u201d first appeared in Black Cats and Broken Mirrors (1998). This is a story about art and mental illness and escaping our history.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwa Corbies\u201d first appeared in Twenty 3: A Miscellany (1998). This is a story of Jilly and the Crow Girls and an old woman. This is a lovely, brief, tale.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fields Beyond the Fields\u201d first appeared as a limited edition chapbook (1997)This is a Christie Riddle story.<\/p>\n

Time passes oddly. Though I know the actual contrast is vast, I don\u2019t feel much different now from when I was fifteen. I still feel as clumsy and awkward and insecure about interacting with others, about how the world sees me, though intellectually, I understand that others don\u2019t perceive me in the same way at all. I\u2019m middle-aged, not a boy. I\u2019m at that age when the boy I was thought that life would pretty much be over, yet now I insist it\u2019s only begun. I have to. To think otherwise is to give up, to actually be old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Published by Orb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moonlight & Vines (1999) Charles de Lint \u201cSweetgrass & City Streets\u201d \u201cSaskia\u201d \u201cIn This Soul of a Woman\u201d \u201cThe Big Sky\u201d \u201cBirds\u201d \u201cPassing\u201d \u201cHeld Safe by Moonlight and Vines\u201d \u201cIn the Pines\u201d \u201cShining Nowhere but in the Dark\u201d \u201cIf I Close My Eyes Forever\u201d \u201cHeartfires\u201d \u201cThe Invisibles\u201d \u201cSeven for a Secret\u201d \u201cCrow Girls\u201d \u201cWild Horses\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,2,41,34],"tags":[71,161],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","category-fantasy","category-reread","category-urban-fantasy","tag-charles-de-lint","tag-newford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1xY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":204,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/204","url_meta":{"origin":5950,"position":0},"title":"Moonlight & Vines","author":"Michelle","date":"March 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Moonlight & Vines (1999) Charles de Lint The third Charles de Lint short story collection, Moonlight & Vines returns again to Newford. 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