La-la, how the life goes on

GETTING THROUGH by Ramsey Campbell 

“His elbow thumped his father in the face and knocked his glasses off.”

I truly loved this story, and not only because the hero’s name is Desmond! It is intensely fantastic, amazing, astounding…. With a Galaxy of Shards from its own built in mirror at the end. An end I will not spoil here. And a punch-line second to none.
On the surface, though, it’s about a nerd’s SF magazines, his parents wanting him to get out rather than sit in his room with ever more magazines, his meeting of Dianne at university, and their attempts at creating the patter of little feet. It’s just a bit of the future, a bit from the future, seen without reflection but writ large in your face nevertheless, till it all smashes, as it is about to do so in real-time, I guess… Optimally, Desmond read this just when he needed to read it, to the sound of the Beatles song that mentions him. Authentically, this Author’s ‘Life goes on’, I’d say.
(Dodge the dog.)

The full context of this review here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/02/26/best-new-horror-31/