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A review by trish204
Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016 by Julia Rios, Michael Damian Thomas, Lynne M. Thomas, Michi Trota
4.0
4.5 stars
Another short(er) story by one of the best young writers I've seen thus far. Seriously, the atmosphere Alyssa Wong is acapable of conjuring up is bloody fantastic!
This story is about magic, the deadly kind. It's about old, raw power as witnessed in nature. It's about a forsaken town and what happened / is still happening to certain people there. It's about inner and outer demons (being rotten literally as well as figuratively) and revenge.
To say that the place where all this happens is haunting would be like comparing most books to their movie adaptations. As another author once put it: it's like comparing a magic carpet to a paper napkin. Alyssa Wong can write scary things in a fearless way; she can conjure whole worlds in a single sentence; she can make a straightforward story mystifying and complex. And she did all of that with this story too.
Seriously, this is a feast for the eyes and mind and I loved every hot bit of it.
Another short(er) story by one of the best young writers I've seen thus far. Seriously, the atmosphere Alyssa Wong is acapable of conjuring up is bloody fantastic!
This story is about magic, the deadly kind. It's about old, raw power as witnessed in nature. It's about a forsaken town and what happened / is still happening to certain people there. It's about inner and outer demons (being rotten literally as well as figuratively) and revenge.
To say that the place where all this happens is haunting would be like comparing most books to their movie adaptations. As another author once put it: it's like comparing a magic carpet to a paper napkin. Alyssa Wong can write scary things in a fearless way; she can conjure whole worlds in a single sentence; she can make a straightforward story mystifying and complex. And she did all of that with this story too.
Seriously, this is a feast for the eyes and mind and I loved every hot bit of it.