Beneath the Cellars of Our Town by Steven Millhauser _1998_
Summary Non Spoiler
- Length:15 pages
- Genre: Fantasy-Milieu
- Summary: This story describes the subterranean homesick blues. I am not sure if this story takes place in an actual place, or it takes place in the back country of our mind. Millhauser does not make this clear. The author focuses the story not on action or conflict resolution, but on describing a milieu (the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops.)
It would be far truer to say that they bear no relation whatever to any period of history, but rather exist as a place apart-a place from which to contemplate the town coolly, or even to forget the town altogether.
I am searching within the back-steps of my mind, stumbling down the stairs, leading to my filthy cellar, because my mind is attempting to find conflict within my subterranean blues. For I discover that I am, just like the author, a pale amphibian.
