Forever - and other stories: Stories about life -- and death -- and life forever

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Oddly designed, oddly thought-provoking collection

Dec 5, 2012

by SheilaDeeth
posted in Friends and Fans of Fantasy

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An interesting mix of short stories covering life, death and forever, plus all the ages in between, Christopher Geoffrey McPherson’s collection encompasses both the innocence and eagerness of childhood and the dark depths of adult betrayals.
The tales start with The Little Books that Ran Away, a pleasing children’s story of where books go when they’re neglected. But perhaps there’s an adult message behind the words—where do people go as well? This certainly isn’t a set of children’s stories, as its complex sentences and haunting ideas soon prove. The sound of waves and the cadence of the page will soothe readers away in a lovely tale of an Untitled Life, but mysteries and memories chase after secrets and betrayals in other stories. Fathers and sons, grandparents, lovers and homosexual love play across the page, with a theme of lost or neglected lives growing out from that first image of childhood books. If we don’t read, we can’t experience what others see, but this author asks us to read and see, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes over-earnestly, but always with a pleasingly intriguing honesty.
I’m still not sure how well the collection ties together, or who the intended audience is. But I did enjoy reading it, and that final tale, Forever, with its untethered time and mystique, haunts me as a favorite.

Disclosure: I was given a free ecopy of this book and I offer my honest review.

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