Despite all appearances to the contrary, I've been doing more about Oz the past few months than just collecting comic strips and Jeopardy! clues. I've also been reading a bunch of Oz (and Ozzish) comic books, and I will probably have to do a major catch-up post on those some time this spring, for example. My new (albeit temporary) job and lots of other things to read recently have pushed the regular Oz reading aside for a while, however, but the one thing I have been able to maintain is reading one Oz short story a week. Right now I'm working my way through Baum's Our Landlady again, reading three columns each weekend. These columns don't really lend themselves well to the sort of critiques I usually do with short stories, being very much products of their time and place, but I thought I'd read them again.
This weekend, however, has been an exception, as there's a new short story available online. "Who Stopped the Rain?" was posted by the author, Nathan M. DeHoff, on the Royal Forums of Oz, and it's a lot of fun. It's especially helpful if you know Thompson's Oz, as it takes place not long after The Giant Horse of Oz. I left a couple other comments on the page itself, so you can see what I think there. Go check it out!
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