Thanks so much! Feedback like this puts a smile on my face for the whole day.

Random thoughts: This piece is definitely highly stylized, which I think is easier to pull off at shorter lengths. It can get exhausting for the reader if it goes on too long. One reason I adore Lex is that he actually thinks in symbols, on a conscious level -- at least, I think I can plausibly write him that way. And I worry about present tense, but in this case I felt okay with it because Martha has only the present tense, as the past falls away from her and the future stretches out forever.

I hope in the longer story, Switch, the style isn't as intrusive -- not quite what I mean, but in a story like A Sort of Walking Miracle the style itself is almost a character, while in Switch I wanted it to be more transparent.

I'm glad you liked Incarnadine. I'm usually dissatisfied with stories a few months after I post them, but I actually think Incarnadine works.

Anyway, thanks for giving me an opportunity to think out loud -- er, on keyboard -- about style. I often worry about it.