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“Dead End” by Nicholas Royle

Posted on June 9, 2022

A man on vacation with his mistress is haunted by guilt and frightening premonitions.

This is an elusive little story; I wasn’t sure at first if the images of a car crash were premonitions, or memories – that the two characters never interact with anyone else, at least in view of the reader, and seem to be penned into a claustrophobic space, made me wonder if they weren’t already dead and condemned to some strange hell.

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