Feather: Tales of Isolation and Descent

By David Rix
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Published: Aug. 03, 2012
Words: 121,446 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781908125149

Short description

In these nine stories and novellas, David Rix weaves an enigmatic web of fictions at the shifting intersections of Slipstream, Horror and Science Fiction. Feather passes from remote beaches and salt marshes covered with samphire and grey sky to more human wildernesses in London and Ljubljana – always on the move and always making encounters. Always touching people with her own magic.

Extended description

Who is Feather? The wandering girl – the running girl. Fragmentary, oblique, a damaged product of innocence lost, on the run from a deprived childhood and eccentric domineering father. Passing from remote beaches and salt marshes covered with samphire and grey sky to more human wildernesses in London and Ljubljana – always on the move and always making encounters. Always touching people with her own magic. Always unable to engage emotionally with all the lives she passes through – hurt, maybe, but always just moving on. In these nine stories and novellas, David Rix weaves an enigmatic web of fictions at the shifting intersections of Slipstream, Horror and Science Fiction. Feather lurks at the edges of some of these tales and erupts from the centre of others, but her presence and personality haunt them all, like an eerie melody played on an underwater violin. Perhaps Feather is a symbol of something fundamentally human, an avatar for the collision of our common humanity.. (Read more) Who is Feather? The wandering girl – the running girl. Fragmentary, oblique, a damaged product of innocence lost, on the run from a deprived childhood and eccentric domineering father. Passing from remote beaches and salt marshes covered with samphire and grey sky to more human wildernesses in London and Ljubljana – always on the move and always making encounters. Always touching people with her own magic. Always unable to engage emotionally with all the lives she passes through – hurt, maybe, but always just moving on. In these nine stories and novellas, David Rix weaves an enigmatic web of fictions at the shifting intersections of Slipstream, Horror and Science Fiction. Feather lurks at the edges of some of these tales and erupts from the centre of others, but her presence and personality haunt them all, like an eerie melody played on an underwater violin. Perhaps Feather is a symbol of something fundamentally human, an avatar for the collision of our common humanity with the insanely alien environment of the modern world. But ultimately, Feather is also the muse of David Rix himself, and in sharing her with him, you will come to savour the very act of questioning, and discover that strange world where mystery and innocence meet what we see as normal.
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Tags

horror, coast, sea, london, magic realism, loneliness, isolation, weird stories, feather, slipstream, slipstream fiction, ljubljana, psychological fiction, quiet horror, urban gothic, subtle horror, experimental horror, british new wave, magical fiction

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