Review of Corey Farrenkopf, “Drown-Haunted,” Flash Fiction Online 138 (March 2025): 25-28 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
Content note: Death of a parent.
This story was eerily reminiscent of another I recently reviewed, “The Ferryman Makes His Morning Crossing” by Corey Davis (the eeriness only enhanced by the fact that the two authors share a given name!). There’s something very real and present in the fear that both of these stories express: Fear of a future where our lives and cities as we know them have been overtaken by rising tides, endlessly submerged. But Farrenkopf’s has a moment of hope, towards the end.
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