Des Lewis will be 77 years old on 18 January 2025
Those who have read these episodic brainstorming reviews of mine must know they are very personal — rough-shod and spontaneous. Synchronicity and anagram mixed. I know they are not professional, never potentially publishable other than in the madness of my head, but I do hope they show grains of dark truth and cosmic panache.
These Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews were founded in 2008.
‘What’s the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in your mouth, in the shape it makes on the page? What do you think? Well now, I’ll tell you: E-L-B-O-W. Elbow.’ — THE SINGING DETECTIVE
“How shall a man find his way unless he lose it?” — Walter de la Mare
To any current genre author I have reviewed before — if you have a new story recently published or soon to be published in a collection or anthology, you may have a review by me of the story that also showcases where it is published. See HERE. (This is because I am no longer well enough to review as many books as I once did.)
Fresh Fictions, free to read HERE.
No AI input in preparation of my texts whatsoever.
THE NEW NONSCENIC
Photos here: https://conezero.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/d-f-lewis-recent-photos-1/
The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
There is no rhyme or reason to this approx 20 page story nor to the design of the outside cover of this approx 60 page book housing the story, nor to why the same story seems to be printed twice, but in different languages, one version upside down to the other, or with the head of one version buried in the chest of the other.
But the language-acclimatising of both versions obviate meat, bone and blood selving. Thus creating annexes to each other without being annexes at all. A book that creates you in the interface.
Revelatory.
… as created by a journey quite different but also significantly resonant, in many respects, with the journey in a much longer book that I happen, by chance, to be simultaneously reading here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/witch-cult-abbey-mark-samuels/
Cross-referenced or potentially annexed with
THE SANATORIUM AT CHAKHIRSHIRINCELO
here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/azerbaijan-tales-by-albert-power/#comment-22640