hummingbirds

http://joshuagaylord.com/I have just finished reading Hummingbirds, a novel written by Joshua Gaylord.
Not only was he one of my roommates in college, we went to junior high school together.
Until I read his novel, I always thought the poem "Cold Green Tile" that he wrote in 9th grade was his finest work. I can't remember the poem anymore, but I do still remember how it affected me with a deep and brilliant sense of melancholy.
Hummingbirds has the same insightful brilliance; it is subtle and consuming and I was, quite literally, crouched on my kitchen floor late at night whilst my wife prepared the kids' lunches for school the next day, devouring the last chapters of the book, as I knew I was incapable of going to bed without finishing it.
Great work, Schwa! What you NEED to do is: keep writing awesomeness.