JoJo_theDodo’s Reviews > Twice 22: The Golden Apples of the Sun / A Medicine for Melancholy > Status Update

The story, “All Summer in a Day” was a story I remember my son sharing with me when he came home from school one day. That was a few years ago and it stuck with me all this time. It was a good to be reminded of this memory when I read the story again today.

“And she could not imagine it-no matter how she turned her head to see or turned her mind to look in on itself. There were no rungs anywhere to hold on to, going either up or down, and her mind like a compass left out in a sudden storm of sand, was suddenly blown free of all its once-clear directions, all points of reference worn away, the needle spinning without purpose, around, around.”