18 August 09 - 17:40Black Static - Issue 12

Black Static - Issue 12

TTA Press

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My Brother's Keeper - Nina Allan

My standard introduction to my real-time reviews shown above seemed even more appropriate once I started reading this haunting story of fluid existence passing through a fixed perspective together with the steady fade-in and fade-out of people in one’s life, not only because real-time is treated here with TCP ointment (Time Conflux Parentage (my inference) any others?) but also a telling reference to Wagner’s Ring Cycle – a work that probably invented leitmotifs in music.  This story has childhood angsts blending brilliantly with other serendipities and synchronised shards of random truth and fiction.  Also related to a Ligottian figure (named Ferenc here) and to childhood’s ‘imaginary friends’ made real.  And adult conspiracies too grown-up to fathom. Dark family secrets. And ... (more)

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