“the world’s slowest little movie”

COME CLOSER by GEMMA FILES

And so it does.

“…swiping back and forth to run it forward or back, the world’s slowest little movie.”

You are Lin (Nil?) in our reality today, here such reality cast as recurring dreams of it, as if all our worst fears of fixtures’ unfixedness could soon come home to roost — and we readers all depend on YOU to rescue us! For fear of even worst spoilers, we will not divulge this frightening work’s structure of events that contains such second person singular and first person plural co-vivid dreams — other than to mention its sexual ménage à trois, with believable characterisations becoming Bowenesque ‘shadowy thirds’ as they grapple with a HOUSE of Vines (if not of Leaves) moving nearer and nearer.

“….as if you’re their only possible means of escape, their last shred of hope.”

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Full context of this review: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/12/11/the-best-horror-of-the-year-13-ellen-datlow/