No ofense taken! I welcome your views and I hope Erica takes them in the same light as they are offered. This relates to my narrow-minded view of my own fiction. I find that I can only write about what can or may really happen. And I mostly like to read similar stories. Science fiction (and one of my friends was an award winning SF writer) is not something I often read. I eschew the supernatural, including ghost stories, (especially) miracles, monsters, etc. (I am a loss at Halloween.) Yet I admire the work of Haruki Murakami, whose characters often converse with cats and live on alternate planes of reality! He is incredibly observant and descriptive: you can see, feel, smell and touch his characters and his settings! Every time I read him, I decide never to write another sentence again. He is that good! (Sorry to get off the subject!)