SBHS Book Wyrms discussion

The following relates to the obtaining of blood-child the short story we will be reading over the next two weeks and discussing next Friday. it's short and has won the a Hugo and Nebula award so you've little excuse not to read it.
The book can be obtained fro free from a number of locations, a pdf can be downloaded from https://boblyman.net/englt392/texts/b....

It doesn't look like anyone has posted in a while, but I really love this book and am interested in discussing and unpacking some of the heaviness of it if others are.