Rift in the Sky

[readingredhead]

Oh man, I feel like someone just massacred my fictional children. Or like I just came home, only no one in my family or my hometown recognized me. THAT is how sledgehammer-y the ending of Julie E. Czerneda's Stratification trilogy is. I'm sitting here dazed and confused and with an odd aching emptiness that's all the more strange for the way that it's not supposed to be there. She's not supposed to leave me empty -- she's supposed to fill me. It's what I depend upon her fiction for. But this time, it didn't work. Maybe it wasn't supposed to work? I don't know. But I've never left one of her books feeling this low before.

*rants*

*exhales deep sigh*

*shakes self out of it*

Hm, probably I'll go on a run. It seems like the only viable solution.