They say that when you die, your life flashes before you, that time slows to a crawl and every moment seems like a lifetime in itself. Roadkill by Joseph D'Lacey is the short story equivalent of this maxim, the entire tale taking place over just one hundred seconds, and works well for it.
That we know little of this society beyond the tantalising glimpses we are given is both intriguing and deliciously frustrating, with the whole tale feeling as though we've stumbled across a lost chapter from a larger epic, but this is no bad thing, as the best examples of short fiction are often brief glimpses into other lives, other realities, often with no tangible resolution as is the case here. Harlan Ellison is a master of this approach, and D'Lacey channels his work here while retaining his own voice, a voice lest we forget that no less than...
That we know little of this society beyond the tantalising glimpses we are given is both intriguing and deliciously frustrating, with the whole tale feeling as though we've stumbled across a lost chapter from a larger epic, but this is no bad thing, as the best examples of short fiction are often brief glimpses into other lives, other realities, often with no tangible resolution as is the case here. Harlan Ellison is a master of this approach, and D'Lacey channels his work here while retaining his own voice, a voice lest we forget that no less than...
- 6/6/2013
- Shadowlocked
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