Of Darkness and Light, my first novel, was published a few weeks before Christmas in 1989, and I gave a copy to my then-girlfriend as a Christmas present. She spent Christmas at her parents' place, and her mother asked if she could read my book.
"I don't think you'd like it, Mum. It's not your kind of thing..."
"Don't be daft," her mother said, and took the book with her when she went to bed.
In the morning, she handed her daughter the book without a word.
"Well, Mum? Did you read it?"
"Aye, I did."
"Well, what did you think?"
"The boy looks normal."
Barry Graham is a novelist, journalist, poet and Zen teacher from Glasgow, Scotland. He has been based in the U.S. since 1995, and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of more than a dozen books and has written for a diversity of magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, Flaunt, Parabola, Las Vegas Life, The Arizona Republic and Scotland on Sunday.
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