Anthony Cowin’s The Brittle Birds is
a beautifully written story, painted with creeping webs of horror and despair.
The
underlying tale recounts the damaged relationship and lives of two brothers, their
unique view of the world and their methods of dealing with its challenges – all
stemming from the consequences of a harrowing childhood event. The depiction of
this journey in itself is an articulate masterpiece, with Cowin addressing psychoses
and trauma in a raw and almost tender way, but the overarching power of this
short book is the impact of the brittle birds themselves.
The author compels readers to question myth then forces you
to disregard everything you have ever perceived as truth when the terrifying brittle
birds take poetic flight across the pages and into our psyches (at the very
least).
The brittle birds – you’ll have your own name for them, I'm
sure – are dread incarnate. And if you are as affected by the possibility of
them as I, then you’ll never see the world in the same way again.
Excellent.
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The Brittle Birds, an 18 page ebook written by Anthony Cowin and published by Perpetual Motion Machine is now available on all Amazon platforms.
Read more about Anthony at: www.anthonycowin.com
