Just a heads up for interested readers: my short story, The 24 Hour Brother, is now available to read in the new issue of Apex Magazine.
You can read it by clicking here.
The story is an odd one. Two things formed the story initially: one for form, one for feeling. 1.) I’d been wanting to write a story in which the life cycle of a human being was completed within a very few pages, and to hopefully, maybe, achieve some kind of emotional resonance over the occurrence despite the brevity of their stay. 2.) With that in mind, I happened to read an essay by Joyce Carol Oates in which she talks about the “life-lie” we all tell ourselves. The necessary delusion that lets us go on living as we live, doing what we do.
It’s not a terribly uplifting story, I’m afraid, but I hope it resonates, even if it doesn’t uplift.
Thanks for reading.
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