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For me the key to a good short story is one that I want to read over and over. We Live in Water does just that... as soon as I finished the collection, I wanted to start it all over again. Walter has the ability to make you laugh out loud reading one story and cry reading the next; to me this makes him one of the greatest authors of the Pacific Northwest... up there with Sherman Alexie and Ursula K. Le Guin.