If you are not a fan of the inventive, you will struggle to participate in Amber Sparks’ avant-garde brand of story-telling. The Unfinished World and Other Stories deals with death, or the little deaths that strip us of our love and innocence. Her characters’ nightmares and reveries manage to address the violation and loss we feel in this physical world, and how we fight time in an attempt to balance that hurt – as in ‘Thirteen Ways of Destroying a Painting’, where a time traveler repeatedly interferes with an artist’s creative process in order to protect him from a perilous end.
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