Not so many meetings today. Not so much gaming, either.

Read: World War Cthulhu (ed Brian M Sammons, Glynn Owen Barrass): Encounters with the Mythos in time of war, or at least by soldiers. Troy, Vietnam, American Revolution, Cold War, some wars yet to come, but no Gulf War or Afghanistan, by which I conclude that the authors are not just mostly white guys, but old white guys. I guess that’s thematically fitting for Lovecraft. One good thing about wars (well, not the Trojan War) is that they have lots of explosives, which as we know is the best way to take out monsters, but many of the protagonists come to sticky ends.

Read: “Haley and the Town of Refuge” (MCA Hogarth): Series finale, even more theologically-inclined than the previous installments because the very Christian protagonist has to make a weighty decision. Everyone continues to be well-intentioned and full of good food, though.

Read: “Coffee, Milk & Spider Silk” (Coyote JM Edwards): In a town full of fantasy races, but with modern Internet service, a drider cop retires to open a coffee shop and faces non-fantastic problems like trying to get people to come drink her coffee, difficult baristas, and a lack of talent for latte art. No idea whether this was written before or after Legends & Lattes.

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