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Mislilac
This debut, full-length collection tackles navigating relationships - romantic, familial, interpersonal and platonic - alongside defining a sense of self. Furthering her distinctive voice, the collection builds on the foundations set in H.M. Reynolds' debut chapbook, How Best to Stage a Breakdwon, by exploring themes such as manipulation, disorder and uncertainty.
80 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 30, 2019
About the author
H.M. Reynolds
20 books27 followersH M Reynolds is an accountant by day, adventurer in the unfathomable worlds of the imagination by night.
He has been writing for over twenty years, although has only recently taken up writing about himself in the third person.
Bristol born he has lived in the area all his life - apart from a significant stint in Cardiff - although one of his most favourite pastimes is travelling other parts of the world.
He enjoys rambling, both in the literary and the cross-country sense.
He has been writing for over twenty years, although has only recently taken up writing about himself in the third person.
Bristol born he has lived in the area all his life - apart from a significant stint in Cardiff - although one of his most favourite pastimes is travelling other parts of the world.
He enjoys rambling, both in the literary and the cross-country sense.
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August 5, 2020
What struck me about Reynold’s first collection, How Best to Stage a Breakdown, was how viscerally and honestly she wrote about mental health. Mislilac builds upon this sturdy foundation and flourishes. Reynolds’ style has matured further and her voice is exceptional and unique. There is something so very honest in Mislilac even though most of the collection questions who we are and what drives our actions.
Reynolds intelligently equates break-ups with roundabouts, problems with marbles, she re-imagines text conversations laced with the ugly truth and opens up about the words she wrote but never sent. Her pieces are striking and moving. I am always in awe of Reynolds’ ability to transform the personal into something so universal.
We are all the ‘thinker’ in this collection. In ‘Strand One’, we question the advice we are given - that things get better in time, that we’ll grow out of the pain. In ‘Burner phone’, we recall all those who reek of falseness and ask why we ever loved them. In ‘Traced Together’, we remember every failed relationship - wonder if we regret the forgetting or the freedom. And in ‘Intermittance’, we think of every scar we still apologise to. In short, H. M. Reynolds masters capturing the human condition. Mislilac (Thinker) is a triumph.
“I feel these gaps and feel your
Vacancy. Vacant, to me, is
All you ever needed to be. I
Think we would know,
When we chanced upon it.
I think we would realise what we had done.”
[Dear]
Reynolds intelligently equates break-ups with roundabouts, problems with marbles, she re-imagines text conversations laced with the ugly truth and opens up about the words she wrote but never sent. Her pieces are striking and moving. I am always in awe of Reynolds’ ability to transform the personal into something so universal.
We are all the ‘thinker’ in this collection. In ‘Strand One’, we question the advice we are given - that things get better in time, that we’ll grow out of the pain. In ‘Burner phone’, we recall all those who reek of falseness and ask why we ever loved them. In ‘Traced Together’, we remember every failed relationship - wonder if we regret the forgetting or the freedom. And in ‘Intermittance’, we think of every scar we still apologise to. In short, H. M. Reynolds masters capturing the human condition. Mislilac (Thinker) is a triumph.
“I feel these gaps and feel your
Vacancy. Vacant, to me, is
All you ever needed to be. I
Think we would know,
When we chanced upon it.
I think we would realise what we had done.”
[Dear]
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