Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories – MariNaomi
There is perhaps no more apt metaphor for the stories and vignettes in Dragon’s Breath than this: something that flares bright in your vision and lingers long after it’s extinguished.
Aidt perceives with great clarity the intricacies of relationships, not just romantic or sexual, though they are prominent, and she does it with an apparent cool distance.
Mature Themes searches for pieces of people in the streaming media as if panning for gold.
A big octopus shows up and helps them, but the volcano is undeterred and continues moving forward.
By Night the Mountain Burns – Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
It is a melodic text rife with images of hollowed canoes and mist-enveloped mountains.
Skeleton Costumes – Thomas Moore
As if Rimbaud were on Whatsapp.
The book provides you with the wincing secondhand anxiety of watching someone smart you know hurt themselves, repeatedly.
The Spectral Link – Thomas Ligotti
He is a metaphysical mutant in that he is a hodgepodge of clichéd horror motifs and effects, and metaphysical ideas. He’s a rhetorical monster.
Diary of the Fall – Michel Laub
According to these numbers, the narrator knows more about his grandfather (38+22=60) than either about his father (31+28=59) or about himself (31+26=57).
I don’t trust adults to write about youth as much as I did before I became an adult myself.