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BERNARD MACLAVERTY

THOMAS LIGOTTI

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My AI decorated reviews of dead writers

TARTAN by Julie Travis

“He wanted to live long enough to see the human race destroy itself in a nuclear war. He imagined a moment before his own destruction where he would enjoy the end of the species and it would be a beautiful moment.”

This work is both hilarious and somewhat terrifying in its implications. Certainly, intriguing, too.

Who is this Chrome fellow purported to be dead? — some of the story’s characters are celebrating his death but also daring not to believe it isn’t fake news, celebrating because of what evil he did to them and their kin, and there are other mad folk like a Lord in Westminster who wants to solve the mystery of the expensive coffin given to Chrome’s body but equally left to putrefy in it without embalming and also to summon any means to resurrect him — but is it indeed fake news, about someone who once seemed in life to have a tan, but is brought back to life from the tar in smoke that is derived as part of the need for nicotine backwards as it were into the body as well as into time, here blown into the orifice at the opposite end of the supine body to the mouth with which he once mouthed off? See ‘Chrome (mineral) tanning’ versus ‘vegetable tanning’ in the conversion of animal skin to leather. Tobacco’s smoke-tar and its nicotine are derived from plant leaves. Not animal or mineral. A fable for our populist times. In Westminster, too. A story about the fundaments of shag, and our crazy desperations. As well as about this story’s oft-called ‘bastard’. (my italics, my bad)

Without my conscientious, if preternaturally brainstorming, theories about this story, it can be appreciated on other levels, and ever remains fundamentally what I said at the beginning of this review.

“…when the bastard starts burning.”

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This story is available in Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #72, published August 2022.

My previous reviews of Julie Travis: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/julie-travis/

My previous reviews of TQF: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/theakers-quarterly-fiction/

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LATER EDIT (6 Nov 22): The tar tan as the new embalming!

My ongoing reviews of single stories by living authors: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/the-single-story-toward-a-novel-world/

Tomorrow, When I Was Young – Julie Travis

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“‘Shapeshifting is necessary sometimes,’ said the elder, ‘it is neither good nor bad.’”
I must say I found this novelette captivating in a way that stopped me questioning how it managed to be so captivating, naively, disarmingly so. I enjoyed the character of Zanders and her search for an ancestor in Peru and the people she met along the way. But, above all, I loved the Golden Sea Captain whose ship the Giantess has a potentially shapeshifting or, rather, shapedetaching figurehead. A transformational yage and genderation of still slanting self. And the giant creature in the Golden Sea that went against the grain of gestalt by splintering off into many tiny creatures with divisive knives. B77A7337-14ED-4182-9770-FF0C8CAC7349 Ah, there is so much more I have not told you about this book’s journey that Zanders was making, and her connection with England, and I miraculously found myself being part of her journey rather than simply sharing it. By dint of both her smile and her sorrow. And I know that we all shall one day doff our clothes to enter our own particular Golden Seas and hopefully find more than just pronouns to define us. Towards synchronicity, … ”It was Zanders who first noticed how the gap between the elder’s speech and the Captain’s translation was narrowing.”

My previous reviews of this author: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/julie-travis/

My previous reviews of Eibonvale Press: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/eibonvale-press/

Three Eibonvale Chapbooks

TOMORROW, WHEN I WAS YOUNG by Julie Travis
THE LIGHTHOUSE by Jeremy Schliewe
ANIMALS OF THE EXODUS by Alexander Zelenyj

Please see future comments below when I read these publications….

Vastarien – A Literary Journal Issue 2

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Volume 1 Issue 2 : Summer 2018

Grimscribe Press

Matt Cardin and Jon Padgett, Co-Editors-In Chief
Dagny Paul, Senior Editor

Cover Art: Yves Tourigny

Contributors: Giuseppe Balestra, Justyna Bendyk, Ashley Dioses, Amelia Gorman, Jill Hand, Ksenia Korniewska, Serhiy Krykun, Øyvind Lauvdahl, Carl Lavoie, Rob F. Martin, Christopher Mountenay, Joanna Parypinski, Max D. Stanton, Julie Travis, Nicole Vasari, Tim Waggoner, Charles Wilkinson.

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below….