The story of a man finding what appears to be items of child porn near a day centre which children frequent, and he takes these items home in a quandary of guilt as to what he should now do, not even looking beyond the first impressions of the images’ details. His anxiety is magnified… as is mine in reading this story at all and having to write about it. Possession or destruction! A story that has no repercussions other than those stemming from its own fiction as potential truth. A clever gaslighting of the reader. A crime waiting to be discovered, a crime that was never a crime in the first place, as the crime in the story was fiction, far-fetched fiction? But fetched from where and unto where?
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A story in BANG! an anthology of Noir Fiction coming from the Headshot Press this March.
My previous reviews of Brian Howell: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/brian-howell/
More of my single dessiminations of the new as due to be linked from here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/39772/
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