I’m not too much one for works that could rightly be deemed "literary" (in a sense that they’re not genre, and taken to mean the stuffier end of it) simply because too often I find them nothing short of literary masturbation with the author caring nothing for the story at hand and only for displaying to others just how good he or she writes.  But not this.

This is the type of literary that other literary authors should strive for.  No, it doesn’t have fireballs or elves or magic of any kind or anything undead and there isn’t much by the way of action so it might not be "interesting" for some.  I won’t lie; that’s pretty much all that’s interested me as of late.  But it has a true to form story about people that could rightly be deemed the salt of the earth, written majestically as if it were the most natural thing in this world.

There’s no force in the writing, no showboating, no striving to reach a goal set by others, or a seemingly unattainable one set by himself.  There is just writing and authenticity in characters.

I’m unfamiliar with the Welsh and, quite honestly, I keep thinking of their dialogue, the way the words are arranged at least, as something Yoda would say.  They say things what I can only define as backwards, end of sentences at the beginning, but I can only assume that’s true to the region.  I’m going to have to put my faith in the author and simply trust he’s telling me the truth.

The chapters are broken up into sections and if you go to the site, it looks like only two chapters are up but there are multiple parts to each chapter.  The navigating is a little tricky and it’s going to be a bit of a pain to go back and finish reading but I’ll manage.

From the beginning I was head over heels for the writing but I was weary of where it was going, if anywhere.  Now I can see little pieces of story blooming and I’m going to be right there, running along after it.

If nothing else, read this story for the writing because it’s simply brilliant.

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