Stories written by Audrey Thomas tell about things happening to one, & the condition of that one, a person very much alone in the world. She is a child alone in an ugly & baffling world of adults, she is a North American woman alone in a bungalow in West Africa or in a museum in Mexico, she is a virgin far from home, bare naked in a college dorm on the North Sea. She is usually trapt alone in the self, resentful or fearful of failing at her role somewhere in society, an identity thrust at her out of the dark. If anything may be said to be Audrey Thomas' consistent theme, it is private fear. For Thomas it is in that context that events happen to the point-of-view character….

In her writing Audrey Thomas has proceeded from an early portrayal thru psychological realism of her Alice [in Wonderland...