Swords by James Roome Richard Meier Laura published their first book

Laura published their first book

an effect lightly presaged in the prologue which is a slender poem with barely any lines or words

as with the best of sombre narratives

Absence is a recurrent bassline underscoring Atta’s narratives

the corpses of bookworm swill

Swords by James Roome Richard Meier Laura published their first bookA woman sits alone in an office waiting room. She inhales, deeply. She can smell herself. So begins a surrealist odyssey that takes in blue mountains and giant duvets, prosthetic limbs and oranges, cannibalism and active wear, before ending in a gym. Swords is a narrative about the absurdity of rationality, the attempt to impose order on chaos, the gradual decay of selfhood in a world without MEANING. But, mostly, it is the story of a gradual stumble