The world of InCryptid remains on my auto-buy list. Seanan McGuire's delivery of the stories in this world have me totally hooked. At this point, I'm just buying everything with her name on it so I appreciate these free stories.

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Pleasingly fierce return to adventure. Healys on vacation are an interesting time. ( )

A fun little adventure, and the lake creatures are great. ( )

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The Healy's find themselves on a fishing trip, but still trouble finds them, as they need to protect the creatures that live in the lake. This story contains more of the action you'll be used to at this point.

Unfortunately, the Aeslin mice have to stay at home, but it is for their own safety, as the woods are a dangerous place for some mice. ( )

This is not the first in the series (for which I hope the gods of LT will forgive me).So I did feel a little out of my depth at times, but not too bad. The Healeys are parents, sone and daughter-in-law and they go fishing to a lake. Which just happens to have some plesiosaurs that have survuved in this lake since the dinosaur extinction. Imagine Nessie's North American cousins. These creatures are quite happy to allow the family to go fishing and, in return for not upending their boat, they have their backs scratched and the mites scrubbed off. All so far so good. Only there is a fly in the ointment (when is there not?) and it comes in human form, of the local landowner's niece and her husband, who are both such lovely people that they deserve everything that's comming to them.
I'm not sure what the set up in this particular fantasy world is, but it seems to me to be an interesting juxtaposition of rational and fantastical, but just enough rational to keep the fantastic in bounds. I have a theory that the greatest science fiction makes you take one leap of faith (there are living dinosaurs) and then the remainder of the story is entirely selfconsistent, there are no additional leaps of faith that you need to take for the story to make sense. This short story passed that test with flying colours. I can see myself reading more of these. ( )