denouement

by Donovan Reyes

denouement chronicles three young women drifting through the labyrinthine confines of suburbia late one night, a psychogeographic tale with flashes of weird fiction, acid house, Greco-Roman mythological allusion and more—like if Flannery O’Connor sought an asphalt-and-concrete-encrusted North to be Christ-haunted, or if Celine wrote Journey To The End Of The Night deep within the bowels of a sinister rave.

95 pages, Paperback

Published June 18, 2025

About the author

Virginia-based author of the suburban gothic, digging the Americana high-strangeness. Often found in dive bars and punk clubs cosplaying a 19th C. French Symbolist. Certified Baudelaire stan. tune in, cop-out.

Reviews

[Rebecca Gransden]

Donovan Reyes' domain is that of the illuminated store, the lonely places on the outskirts of town, the back rooms of an America in thrall to the failure of its own myth. With denouement Reyes envisions a peripatetic slumberland, surroundings subject to abstruse moods. Nowhere addicts succumb to an anaesthetised pulse, ensnared by the numb rhythms of a society gone ill on its symptoms.

Read my interview with the author at XRAY Literary Magazine.

[Fae Jensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

some books are dense with philosophy, this one is dense with soul consuming vibes