NIGHTJAR PRESS 2022 (my previous reviews of this publisher HERE)
“There was even a forum for somniscribes in which one member claimed to have set up email accounts in his sleep and to have emailed abuse to himself.”
A touching story of bereavement, additionally a mutual synergy with yesterday’s Nightjar story bearing the same title, as reviewed HERE, literature ever being a helpful gestalt should one expose oneself to it with a fearless faith. This story conveys a man’s ordinary daily living, such as brown rubbish bins, window-cleaning matters, resoling shoes thriftily, and a diary kept of such things disarmingly to replace a dead wife! With the circumstances of her death blocked by denial and guilt. Somehow I will not leave a spoiler in this real-time diary of what I have just read, but merely state that what is ostensibly depicted may not be so pragmatically mercenary as it seems and it also leaves you with a fearless faith not only in fiction but also in its preternatural forces if not fully in its supernatural ones. Whatever forces there were tugged down at me, though, like the foreign land beneath its surface, after I was enticed into it by clues written by the author in the text, although, I suspect, they may be disowned as ever having been consciously written at all (or they actually even appeared in it by other means after sending it to be published?)
“…punctuated by a chup-chup-chup call I could not identify,…”
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Cross-referenced with the window cleaner in the next Nightjar story: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/28/the-golden-frog-by-david-bevan/