# Sally Anders — Short Fiction character guide

> Sally Anders in Short Fiction by Frank Belknap Long.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** The Calm Man Sally Anders, Poor Sally

**First appearance:** 0000-the-hounds-of-tindalos

## Snapshot

Sally Anders is a mother trapped across the breakfast table from a husband of stone, holding her son tight while eight years of cold marriage calcify around her.

## Who they are

Sally sits each morning staring at nothing on the wall behind her husband, who cracks eggs methodically and never plays with their boy Tommy. She wants to shriek at him to wreck the toy locomotive, to feel something, but she knows you cannot warm a stone by slapping it. Her quiet desperation and her fierce grip on Tommy make her the emotional center of a household where love has been replaced by pattern.

## Relationships

### [The Man from Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/characters/the_man_from_time)

_psychological_

A tense, possibly obsessive or fearful connection, with Sally caught in the orbit of The Man from Time.

### [Tommy Sweeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/characters/tommy_sweeney)

_friendship_

A close friendship or alliance, likely with shared experiences or mutual support.

### [Tommy Sweeney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/characters/tommy_sweeney)

_friendship_

A close friendship or alliance, likely with shared experiences or mutual support.

### [The Man from Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/characters/the_man_from_time)

_psychological_

A tense, possibly obsessive or fearful connection, with Sally caught in the orbit of The Man from Time.

### [The Man from Time](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/characters/the_man_from_time)

_psychological_

A tense, possibly obsessive or fearful connection, with Sally caught in the orbit of The Man from Time.

## In the story

### [The Calm Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_17_se/chapters/the-calm-man)

The protagonist; a shy but hopeful young woman who marries a mysterious man and later discovers his alien nature as he takes their son away.

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