The stories in Through This Hour take us through the misty vagaries of time and circumstance and leave us with the feeling of traveling through the sweet memories of a life well lived with its bittersweet aftertaste. Mr. Shue weaves a spell binding series of narratives that work as separate entities, but taken as a whole create a sharper, more focused picture of a consciousness at work in the world. Characters surface and submerge again into the flow of this river that seems to move upstream into the dark source of the past with a deceptive current that appears still and slow, but is also swift and dynamic.