Review: Wish It Were Longer
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
This is a sweet, in-one-sitting, almost nonchalant, novella about a handsome and devoted young child teacher who gets whacked from all sides after doing the right thing for a five-year-old girl who suffers an accident on school grounds.  The characters, from Connor the teacher to his best friend Pip (Piedra, a female teacher who knows he's gay), to the narrow minded biddies who run the school, to Wes Callahan the father of the injured child, are carefully drawn and their personalities are right on cue.The plot splits Connor in two--he's the nicest guy in the world caught up in a misunderstanding that still leaves him in financial and psychological trouble when Wes pops into his life to try to right one of his own wrongs.  You see it coming, but as usual Josh Lanyon detours from where you think it's going to where he wants his characters to be.  My only regret is that he might have written more, but then he has a long track record of leaving you thinking that--and then you realize he's right.  Wonderful addition to an extraordinary career.