Eric Kocher’s Sky Mall was a delightful voyage across the friendly skies of reflective moments that occur during travel. He has inquisitive poetic layovers in what it means to be human, a parent, a romantic partner, and a part of society’s collective consciousness. The two-line stanzas bring first class service to the readers with wonderful imagery, thoughtContinue reading “Porthos’ review of Kocher’s Sky Mall”
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My thoughts on Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Four female characters (a manipulative psychologist/hypnotist, an anthropologist, a surveyor, and our protagonist, the biologist) are dispatched into this quarantined area in an intense state of hypnosis, making the slow reveal of the surreal Giger-esque flora and fauna even more terrifying. And just another reason why I may or may not be avoiding finding a new psychologist.