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by Allyson Kenning on Wednesday Nov 03 2010 Mrs. Happy. I know there are so many people here in the Mountain Kingdom who are so excited about winter they can barely contain themselves. This is a ski and winter sport mecca, so I get that. People look forward to this season all year and obsess over snow predictions as a Wall Street investment banker might obsess over the stock market. I get it. Really, I do. There are a significant number of people out there, however, for whom winter is an incredibly difficult time of year. You see, I have a wee touch of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and that is one reason why I tend to get cranky when winter rolls around. Actually cranky barely describes what starts to happen to me when the days shorten, the low cloud descends and socks in the town with greyness, and the cold and gloom take over. ....
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Stories of Everyday Strangeness, in the Midwest and Beyond Caitlin HorrocksCredit.Tyler Steimle By Noor Qasim By Caitlin Horrocks Wouldn’t life be simpler if we could just slumber through it? In “The Sleep,” the opening story of Caitlin Horrocks’s new collection, the residents of a shrinking Midwestern town explore this enticing proposition. Faced with a death in the community and the practical costs of surviving harsh winters, the residents of Bounty decide to try hibernation. “Why stay?” ask nosy reporters. The residents answer: “Our people had moved to Bounty because the land was there and it was empty, and now all we had was the emptiness and one another.” Bounty’s decline has been severe but gradual; residents hardly notice it until the town’s dilapidated buildings are shown on television. Hibernation is their strange yet dignified response. ....