Eugen Bacon reviews Captives by Angela Meyer
Captives
by Angela Meyer
ISBN 978-0-9875401-2-6
Reviewed by EUGEN BACON
The photographs, when they come out, look just like Victorian-era death portraits, only my subjects are still alive. (15)
Noir graphics on the front cover of Captives foreshadow light and shade, life and death. A reader might approach this book of flash fiction with curiosity, wondering if these themed fragments are for everyone. But it is doubtable that one needs to find a penchant for the short form to locate these stories as windows to the real world. Clever harmony, or discord, in the text invites this reader to what author Sandra Horn calls a suggestion of more, a glimpse or hint of a wider story (2015).