Much of the paratext for Uncertain Sons, the debut story collection from Thomas Ha, centres on the act of looking. For a start, Uncertain Sons is a collection spanning six years of Ha’s career. While most of the stories included here are firmly in this tentacular tradition, Uncertain Sons also contains two stories originally published in 2020, both of which may seem surprisingly conventional to readers (like me) who know Ha primarily for his more recent work. The first of these, “Where the Old Neighbors Go,” is a fantasy story about an elderly witch outwitting a demon. This idea of communing with the next generation is a persistent theme in Uncertain Sons.