Zolaria

After reading this short story, I am very disappointed that I was unable to attend the presentation of it. The way that Horrocks was able to maneuver seamlessly through such a vast timeline was wonderful and impressive; and her writing was very fluid and almost prose-like.

The story itself was heart-wrenching, if only because she is able to capture what it feels like to be a child faced with these hardships and the confusion and guilt that comes along with it. She is able to make it believable and relate able, even though these are [I believe?] situations that did not actually occur in her life. That's what makes this piece even more impressive, I think--that she was able to write with such conviction and character that made it vivid enough to seem like an auto-biography rather than a short story. 

I recommend that anyone who didn't attend this reading look this story up--it's really, really wonderful.