The Folks That Live on the Hill has what some critics call a "vertical plot."
In a horizontal plot, the action logically develops out of preceding events, with each new event generating new action.
Most mystery novels have horizontal plots; each new clue leads the investigator closer to the solution of the mystery. In a horizontal novel, plot dominates the book's characterization. In a vertical plot the action hops from one character to another without one event leading to another. Thus Fiona can be involved in a series of events.....
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