St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

These stories are all beautifully written and a bit harrowing, but almost all of them are also unresolved: they set up a very interesting world and story and then leave you wondering what will happen. Many of them involve characters trapped or stranded somewhere and awaiting rescue. They're almost more like vignettes or tableaux than short stories per se. Whether it's because the names, characters and worlds are so intriguingly sketched out with so few words, or because of the unresolved nature of the stories, I have the feeling I'll continue to ponder many of them. My favorite was City of Shells.