Enjoyed this, I'd kind of love to have seen it fleshed out and longer to maybe a novella length. More savouring. ( )

There were hundreds of acres in all directions to lounge around besides where I was trying to build my crazy house. Every crazy woman needs a crazy house, right? You wouldn’t want us living around normal folk, would you? If I couldn’t overcome a passel of venomous serpents, then maybe I wasn’t as crazy as I thought I was, and I’d have to come down off the mountain, and the Mountain Girl just couldn’t do that. So it was me or the snakes. A hell of a lot of snakes, and there seemed to be more of them all the time.

Sometimes you just go with the crazy. This reminded me quite a bit of Leslie Marmon Silko's "Yellow Woman" in places, not nearly as edgy, but about as sensual. (The tiniest bit predictable, but a powerful voice that carries the story, so I didn't mind.) I am not one for romance, but I liked this quite a lot.

Free from Tor.com: http://www.tor.com/2013/07/31/all-the-snake-handlers-i-know-are-dead/ ( )

A sweet tale of a woman and a man who both need a connection. ( )