Tuesday, March 25, 2008

"Fluff" by Otis Twelve

From: Expletive Deleted. Ed. Jen Jordan. Bleak House Books, 2007.

From the first sentence to the last, this story is difficult yet compelling and definitely noir. Ginny is an HIV-positive ex-porn industry worker struggling to do right by her ill infant son. Hopeless as she is, Ginny's narrative voice is engaging and funny without going into parody. Cutting briskly between scenes of Ginny watching over her son and the actions she takes to help him, Otis Twelve sets up a satisfying twist ending as well.

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