6/24/2023 0 Comments Black light kimberly king parsonsA short story that plunges the reader into its world from the first few words, and doesn’t dislodge until long after it’s finished, can be an incredibly satisfying reading experience. Perhaps the greatest strength of this collection lies in its weird, eerie, and sublimely beautiful details of setting and character. Black Light demands the attention of all the reader’s senses. Children at camp and boarding school and in a bug-filled house teenage girls who ache for each other women and men who are driving away or drinking or disappearing into eating disorders or relationships or their child’s blanket fort-all of them are vividly rendered in a Texas setting that bursts off the page like Fourth of July fireworks. In her forthcoming debut short story collection, Black Light, the characters are all longing for something they can’t quite touch or even see. Kimberly King Parsons’ fiction has been around the lit journal world for a little while, appearing in No Tokens, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, and Joyland among others, and has been nominated for and won several awards.
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