The Callahan Touch

This book is about a bar where strange and magical and science fiction-y things happen. It's a new bar, Mary's Place, which evolved out of the remains of Callahan's, a bar that was at the center of the first five books of the series. It's a place where the regulars are like family. Having been sober for twenty-eight years now, it brings up memories of the sort of place I was always looking for in a bar, but never found in reality, a place where you could go on a bender for a week with no repercussions. The reality is never as pleasant as the fiction, and of course the only magic that ever happened to me was that I made it home alive every night. Aside from the grim realities of addictive drinking, this fantasy was very enjoyable, once I got the form of the book down. It's really just a setting for long short stories about random strange happenings, comradery, music, and lots of bad puns. There's no real plot, and when I accepted that, the book opened up into a pretty fun romp.

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