NIGHTJAR PRESS 2022 (my previous reviews of this publisher HERE)
“Other times he would just say, ‘Hello,’ his deep voice dropping the word like a stone in a lake.”
This is a dual-timed relationship between a sporadically raging father and a daughter, as narrated by the daughter, Chloe, whom her father called Bluebell. “Fragmentary images began to flutter in my mind. I laid them out in sequence as I walked.” — and as I read. Father and daughter more alike than unalike. Like a commonwealth of two matching friends as potential enemies, the bull emblem of which appeared last night in our own real-time? A backstory of dysfunction, a family and her baby brother. Duplicating the walk years ago with her Dad to again encounter that shed-like container in a field, a mohican cut path near the two separate reservoirs leading to her maritally estranged father, in later years, asking her, as a barber, for a mohawk…
That earlier time when clocks stopped, and another different time when her father witnessed, with subsequent trauma, a drowning of coworker in the meaty downside gory offal ironically equivalent to Gol’s snorkelling yesterday HERE. What did we see in that shed, alongside them then, and alongside just Chloe today? Hints of an answer within that earlier meatiness and her dad’s motorbike’s growling brute of an engine (see the chance concurrent engines of equivalence HERE) and the later contrastive pent-up silence that had “the solemn quality of a long-held oath…” A pent-up story in itself that will ever snarl in the mental background. Expressing somehow otherwise inexpressible emotions.
“What? What? What?”
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