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The Downfall of the Good Worker Laura McTavish
This story is the centrepiece of the chapbook "We are the Makers of Maps" available on Amazon.
"Without giving away too much of the story the titular character works for the city’s planning department verifying building permits, a job she enjoys because of her love of maps. Until a building proposal crosses her desk that is filled out perfectly, down to the last perfectly placed period, except for an intersection of streets that she has never heard of in the city she has lived in all of her life.
Baader is elegant in evoking the strange in simple, unadorned lines. It’s this simplicity that disarms. His characters are instantly believable with just enough detail provided for the reader to identify with yet not so overloaded it hampers the imagination. He trusts his reader’s intelligence instead of pandering to them. The manner in which Laura reacts to this building proposal and the revelations her research brings to bear upon her psyche are believable and in a large part all the more unsettling because of the understated simplicity of A(W) Baader’s prose. Subtle is not a word often used to describe weird fiction and all the more reason to celebrate it when we can."
Acep Hale @ The Lovecraft Ezine
"Without giving away too much of the story the titular character works for the city’s planning department verifying building permits, a job she enjoys because of her love of maps. Until a building proposal crosses her desk that is filled out perfectly, down to the last perfectly placed period, except for an intersection of streets that she has never heard of in the city she has lived in all of her life.
Baader is elegant in evoking the strange in simple, unadorned lines. It’s this simplicity that disarms. His characters are instantly believable with just enough detail provided for the reader to identify with yet not so overloaded it hampers the imagination. He trusts his reader’s intelligence instead of pandering to them. The manner in which Laura reacts to this building proposal and the revelations her research brings to bear upon her psyche are believable and in a large part all the more unsettling because of the understated simplicity of A(W) Baader’s prose. Subtle is not a word often used to describe weird fiction and all the more reason to celebrate it when we can."
Acep Hale @ The Lovecraft Ezine
27 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 21, 2017
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