Understanding Franklin Thompson

Understanding Franklin ThompsonUnderstanding Franklin Thompson is Jim Meirose's novel for JEF, published in 2019 as Journal of Experimental Fiction vol. 73 in the Offbeat Quirky Editions line. Franklin Thompson and Mother Audrey live simply in a quiet small town, but a mental disorder they share repeatedly forces them to the depths of despair. Its prime symptom is that they are driven apart into separate realities, in which each believes they will never see the other again. Panic

People who should win do not

a gifted young Hungarian graduate student who writes a paper on his work and describes it as "a lot and a little at the same time

It follows Mario

Passions and Shadows or Shadows and Passions (JEF

the city's noise and history pulled in through the consciousness rather than narrated around it

The unreliable narrator lashes out against aliens

The premise is small and unstable: two lovers at the entrance to a fragile relationship

The contributors read as a transit map of innovative fiction in present tense: writers based across the United States

John Kinsella among them

Before he was a novelist and poet

this one narrows to a single subject and presses it until photography itself is asked to account for how time fails to stand still

Alain Arias-Misson praised the intensity and purity of its poetic language