Bed and Breakfast
Publication(s)
- First publication
- Dante's Disciples, ed. Peter Crowther and Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf 1996.
- Wolfe collection(s)
- Strange Travelers (2000)
- The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Summary
A man meets an attractive woman at a bed and breakfast near a portal to Hell. Learning that she is headed for Hell, he asks a demon if she can be spared for a few days. The demon tells him that he can have her forever, because he is her "assignment."
Analysis
- Sources of quotes
- Meanings of names
- References to other works
- Theories about what happens under the surface, what the narrator isn't telling us, who the narrator is and when and why s/he is telling the story, what the whole thing "means," etc.
If there are multiple or competing theories, each one should be given a name with a three-bang (!!!) header; if the page begins to get out-of-hand from the size of these, as could happen in a few cases, they should be shuffled off to their own page(s). - Etc.
Unresolved Questions
- Was it A or was it B, or was it X or Z?
- Was it he or was it she, or was it you or me?
- Who dunnit?
- Did the Star Child really start WWIII at the end of 2001?