the author tautens his digressive style into something that feels distinctly Young Adult, mainly due to what appears to be a narrative about a girl trying to find a boy, trapped in the abandoned research facility across the way. but Captious Calder is scarcely interested in post-apocalyptic meet-cutes and instead, as always, prefers to interrogate the standards and tropes of gender and identity. the story muses on the nature of succubus/incubus and projected thought-forms that can become reality; sadly, the story itself felt only partially thought-out. still, an interesting effort.