I Read Stories: Presence by Jeff Friedman

Presence by Jeff Friedman in Gooseberry Pie

The boyfriend is a former boyfriend, now unseen. Disappeared. Yet still a presence.

As ever Gooseberry Pie’s six sentence format resists my attempts to review. There is something here in this absurd, fabulist fragment, of what’s left behind when a relationship is finished – and something of haunting, and something more left over that makes it both strange and familiar.

Read This: Probably a better use of your time than reading what I had to say about it
Don’t Read This: Transparent allegory