I Read Stories: The Fisherman's Wife's Son

 

The Fisherman’s Wife’s Son by Matthew Finn in Penn Bourbon

The narrator has a monstrous, prehensile penis. He met Miu on a suicide website. She was married to a police sergeant who abused her. When she intended suicide, instead she met the narrator for tea and they began an affair.

Taka lives next door, a manga artist, shut in. He only goes out between three and four in the morning, when he knows the shop across the road is empty, when no one is using the ATM. One night he goes out and finds the narrator, on the stairs, asleep but not sleep walking, the penis dragging him, taking him to Miu.

Miu keeps a diary and in it talks about her affair with the narrator. Her husband, the police sergeant finds it. He thinks the talk of tentacles and octopus lovers is fantasy. He wants to take revenge. Our narrator’s strangeness will be revealed.

Taka’s manga, of monsters and a dark threatening city, culled from the TV screens whose horrors keep him shut in, may be an accurate portrayal. His drawings of the events of the story seem cliched and staged, though they are what the narrator told him.

Read This: Horror murder where the cock-monster pales into insignificance compared to the police and authorities
Don’t Read This: Bizarre juxtaposition of suicide, revenge and redemption with a monstrous penis