6/2/2023 0 Comments The Forgotten by Wendy Beck![]() ![]() There are a few cases of poetic justice here, such as when a football obsessive decides to take out his feelings on a cat and instead gets his comeuppance. ![]() My favourite line of the book came from the latter: “human beings are a mere parenthesis between two unknowns.” In both of these, the imagined identity is so strongly rooted that it reflects, or even alters, the reality. ![]() In “Unamuno’s Boxes,” a woman becomes convinced that her taxi driver is a serial killer in “Anita and Happiness,” Pablo suspects his lover is an alien. Unfortunately, I found the death-drenched work uneven, but there were a few individual stories and recurring elements that I appreciated. That’s what I was hoping for from this collection of 20 of the Argentinian author’s speculative short stories. It’s a dystopian horror novel in which cannibalism becomes commonplace. A couple of years ago, I reviewed Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender Is the Flesh for the R.I.P. ![]()
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