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An artist — caught between thinking his own Tate Modern installations ‘bullshit’ and a talkative cancer diagnosed and now self-untreated inside his body and, later, outside it — has an accompanied Pilgrim’s-Progress, as it were, from Beethoven chamber music to a cancer’s concupiscence to the eponymous Goya. The epiphany of having given birth to those who walk the world today. This story is sheer black disturbance in the darkest chasms of literature, I opine. Indeed, as impossibly black as ‘vanta...
I’m a regular reader of Black Static and don’t normally comment on them. However, this one is worthy of mention as there are three stand out stories: The Black Paintings by Simon Avery, Asleep in the Deep End by Cody Goodfellow and Except for the Down Below by Kristina Ten. Each of these stories contain original premises and touches of the bizarre and weird, which is all to my taste. Regular columns by Ralph Robert Moore and Lynda E. Rucker are, as usual, insightful and thought-provoking. As a f...
Another great issue of Black Static. Love my subscription!
I particularly enjoyed Roots by Daniel Carpenter, and The Stonemason by Danny Rhodes in this issue.