9/21/2023 0 Comments Survivors the quest red dartAs his father worries about his son’s health, Gomer learns about desire, friendship, and self-preservation. In the New England town of Narrow Interior, 15 year old cancer survivor Gomer Faithcutt prepares for the practical Junior Life Saving Test while exploring both his own sexuality and the spectral secrets of a forgotten religious sect that once flourished in the town. Here are five ghost stories, the first one before you and the other four memorized by heart and waiting in their chambers. Survivors carry those lost within them, in their rib cage, in their heart. These stories drive through these new spaces in first gear, flash lighting, searching. Mostly though what it takes is a deep and abiding love for the richness of oranges and pears, how their scent can take you over and make everything in the moment all right.įive Ghost Stories is a collection of five meditations on isolation and absence, each with an abstract connection to the ghost towns that were quickly built in all of our hollowed-out cities over 2020. This universe is a strange and rich place, and sometimes it takes booze and a surreal understanding of sex and The Rockford Files to get through life. Life, Orange to Pear follows a man and his daughter Cyndi as they deal with life, the occult, Santa Claus, boys, and death. Moments of giddy, perceived freedom set against resignation dot the narrative in such a way that will leave you changed. The flawed but lovable characters in Pokrass' novella remind us of how the world's most beautiful places are not always the easiest in which to thrive. Set in coastal California, The Loss Detector is a funny/sad portrait of teenage blues and of a small, transplanted family of non-conformists.
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