Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage (2015)

Upon the edge of time…

EVEN CLEAN HANDS CAN DO DAMAGE by Steve Duffy

Not a story of ‘hands, face, space’ – but one of immaculate intentions made to seem grubby by the force of hindsight and revealed truth. But does the story’s tantalising ending have ‘clean hands’ of its own whereas the future happiness of switched faces makes the best of love as translated from past to future across the space between? […]
A well-written story that, until its ending, felt to me to be over-sentimentalised and paranormally wishy-washy (literally as well as figuratively!) — […]

Full review and its context here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/06/08/finding-yourself-in-the-dark-steve-duffy/#comment-22257