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Compression Scars
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The eleven stories in Kellie Wellss debut collection cover a wide range of eccentric charactersfrom a young girl experiencing her friends strange demise to a set of oppositesex conjoined twins. Forced to deal with the debilitating confines of the physical worldusually manifest in some kind of deformity or affliction, from compression scars to mysterious blue skinWellss characters struggle to transcend their existential disappointments and find some way and someone to love.In the title story, Ivy and her best friend Duncan struggle to understand their mortality as Ivy learns of his potentially fatal internal scarring caused by a moped accident. As Ivy says, Things can get so strange so fast, and they frequently do in Wellss stories. But Ivy and Duncan help each other escape their frightening, difficult world, if only momentarily, through imagination, good humor, and closeness.Godlight addresses most specifically the questions that are evident in all the stories: Do you believe in God, and do you believe in reincarnation? Jonas, the Hyatt Regency Hotels livein light bulb replacement man, encounters two different charactersa child who lives in the hotel and a woman who claims that her identity has been altered for the Witness Protection Programwho ponder these questions. Meanwhile, Jonas is left wondering what has really become of his missing daughter, Emma.The physical world is brought into question frequently in this collection, and in My Guardian, Claire, we see what can happen when someone tries to transcend itand succeeds. During a sance to reach the narrators late mother, Claire reaches the spirit world and never truly returns. The narrator tries desperately to retrieve Claire through a hilarious trip to the Exotic Animal DriveThru Paradise.Compression Scars is an eloquent and original collection that vibrantly captures the oddities of both the everyday and the outofthisworld.
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