I received a digital copy of this book from librarything.com in return for an honest review.
The mother in this short story probably echoes the fears from mothers everywhere when their children go off to war. Who will come home to me? Will I recognize my own child after they’ve witnessed war?
I enjoyed the story, but it was over far too quickly. Would read a longer version! ( )

The narrator's daughter, Dorey, has chosen to go through the third portal, to fight in a war. It's a war than no one knows why it is being waged, but they know that there IS a war, and the theories are enough. Weeks later, Dorey comes home, but she's changed. Those changes are unsettling, and they're the basis of the rest of the story.

This was ultimately a very fast story. Too fast, in my opinion. I would have liked to know a lot more about what came back, and how life changed for the family afterwards. It would have been far more satisfying to have been longer, and it would have benefited from more detail. ( )