Review: Just enough material here to whet your appetite for this author's other writings.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2011
Author Michele Lang says in the Afterword of this piece that this is an unabridged version of the story which appeared in the collectionThe Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance.  It is quite a short story, taking just a few minutes to read.  Mireya Rodriguez had been the victim of a brutal attack which almost took her life.  What was unquestionably taken was her sense of safety and security.  The attack happened in broad daylight in a place where she had always felt comfortable.  It changed her life completely and she isolated herself from almost everyone in the college community at Columbia.  One man, fellow student Jonathan Mellon, was gradually able to earn her trust enough to share with her a secret walled garden beneath the streets of New York City.This story has a lot of material packed into it.  The author has developed Mireya's personality in the aftermath of her trauma very clearly and Jonathan and the secrets fit in quite naturally.  As I like for a short story to do, this one left me sitting quietly after I'd finished it wondering what had happened next.  No, all the answers aren't given here, you will probably do as I did and carry the story out even further in your own imagination than the author did.  This is a very good sampling of the talents of Michele Lang and will let you know if you are interested in purchasing any of her other supernatural tales.