Beside Myself (original 2014; edition 2014)

by Ashley Farmer (Author)

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A girl drinks river water that gives her good advice but a bad reputation. A young woman's job at a make-up counter ends in disaster. Car accidents and cornfields cause siblings to disappear while, up above, airplane banners advertise hair care products. Welcome to Beside Myself, Ashley Farmer's debut collection of short stories. These brief, lucid dreams illuminate the moment the familiar becomes strange and that split second before everything changes forever.… (more)

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Member:	mjhunt
Title:	Beside Myself
Authors:	Ashley Farmer (Author)
Info:	Tiny Hardcore Press (2014), 73 pages
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A lot of imagery and wordplay that I just didn't get; rather than stories these seemed prose poems. And that's fine, this happens in poetry sometimes; there's a symbolism that doesn't translate into my view.
To be fair, I spent this week reading the book furiously for 3 minutes in effort to relax, dropping it, and repeating that process an hour later.

Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |

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A girl drinks river water that gives her good advice but a bad reputation. A young woman's job at a make-up counter ends in disaster. Car accidents and cornfields cause siblings to disappear while, up above, airplane banners advertise hair care products. Welcome to Beside Myself, Ashley Farmer's debut collection of short stories. These brief, lucid dreams illuminate the moment the familiar becomes strange and that split second before everything changes forever.

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