Myth, the Universe, and Everything

He's right, of course. The only fantasy I've ever written ("Whale Meat") was urban fantasy, and the setting was the Chicago Lincoln Park area near De Paul University, where I went to college in the early '70s and tried to draw as accurately as I could. My friend Tom worked at his family's greasy-spoon diner on Clark Street just north of Fullerton, and he and I and our friend George from high school spent a few late nights there, dealing with the local street people and remarking how almost anything could hide on Clark Street. Witches? No problem...