Pearls Before Swine Flu / This Is Plague City

Pearls Before Swine Flu / This Is Plague City
quarter-sized, 28 pages
$2 + 1 stamps in Canada, $3 in the U.S.A.
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I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to say about this. Two short stories told in first person, both very bleak. Pearls is about being sick, being alone, and being drunk; but obviously there is more to it than that. Plague is a little more difficult to sum up in one sentence. There's a trip to the mall to develop a roll of film, a date, dancing on New Year's, a masturbation scene, and a rock band. My favorite line: "She was probably one of the ones that listed fun as an interest." This isn't the kind of stuff that's supposed to give you warm, fuzzy feelings in your heart; still you ought to read this and decide for yourself.
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This review is by Dan Murphy of Elephant Mess and The Juniper.
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