Horror mind candy; all six stories (the last two are really novellas) share a common mythology. Usually-reliable sources had praised Ballingrud's work, so when I ran across a cheap copy I picked this up.
It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month
from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it
drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about
6 years.
5d5 days ago
8mo8 months ago
2yr2 years ago
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9yr9 years ago
A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did
not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.