What do you think?
Rate this book


208 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 24, 2021
My father killed five people. Like most murderers who need only to press a key or push a lever or a switch to elevate themselves for one unfettered instant to the rank of masters of life and death, he did this without touching a hair on his victims’ heads or even looking them in the eye but by means of a series of chrome winches to flood a navigation channel used by riverboats.
Lockmaster! To me and my sister Mira, who had overheard local people make sarcastic jibes and giggle about the curator’s self-appointed title, it seemed at the time as if, before her departing, our mother had embroidered a mocking nickname on his chest, and he took it with him to his doom.
How thin, perhaps only gossamer-thin, was the membrane separating the essence of a peaceful person who loved music, painting and his children – or at least his livestock – from the beast lurking deep within? And what would it take for this membrane to rupture, to rouse this beast and unleash a maelstrom of contradictory possibilities for a human lifespan?