Has anyone else read the short story "Snow" by John Crowley? I found it in The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction and oooooh. So nice. It's beautiful and haunting and I read it twice in a row, that's how much I liked it. It's a story and death and life and memory, and I think it was written wonderfully. It's the sort of thing that would be best read on a lazy, sunny Sunday afternoon while sitting on the patio and drinking honeyed lemonade. I highly recommend that you check it out even if you don't ordinarily like science fiction (it isn't very science-fictiony at all, really). It's only ten pages long, so it's short enough to unobtrusively read while in the bookstore if you don't want to get the book.