Critical Reception
Several critics, in reviewing Just After Sunset, also included their opinions of "Willa". In The Washington Times, the reviewer says, ""Willa" is more than just a flirty romance. It's a ghost story, albeit one with a kicker that causes goosebumps of a different order." Carole Goldberg, in the Sun Sentinel, calls the story a "wistful love song in a haunting minor key." A review for NPR says that in "Willa", as well as in another story in the collection, "The Things They Left Behind", King uses "the supernatural as a way to movingly depict life's frailty."
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