Like a Dream
Seanan McGuire
Like a Dream is Seanan McGuire's Patreon reward for November 2022. She introduces it in this way:
And now it's time for November, wherein Simon gets to learn more about the mortal concepts being therapy and medical treatment.
He's having a week.
This is a story in the October Daye universe. It continues the (now quite long) series of Patreon stories about Simon Torquill trying to adjust himself to domestic life with his wife and husband Dianda and Patrick (yes, it's a mariage à trois) and daughter August. Simon has a history of having been abused and coerced into doing awful things that's he's trying to put behind him. Now that he's no longer loathsome he's full of self-loathing. A nicer person than me might have tender feelings towards Simon and wish him well. But I am an awful person and I cannot help feeling that, like Marvin the Paranoid Android, Simon's company is unbearable.
This one is more tedious than ever because we are subjected to searching heart-to-heart discussions of Simon's mental health and what should be done about it. However deeply interesting conversations about benzodiazepines and the expense of therapy might be to the principals, they are unpleasant and awkward to an outside observer.
Yes, you are right. I am a terrible person.
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