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There are Reasons for This by Nini Berndt
['E.C. Barrett', 'They She', 'Writes Folk Horror', 'Fabulism', 'Dark Speculative Fiction. They Are', 'Or Have Been', 'An Academic', 'Journalist', 'Bookseller', 'Editor']
Strange Horizons
In the almost-here future of Nini Berndt’s debut novel, There Are Reasons for This, everyone is looking for a distraction from the reality of their lives.
She’d wanted that a long time, to hit him.
Lucy pictured Helen beautiful, like Mikey, artsy and well-read, but the woman she finds isn’t anything like she expected:Now that she saw her, Helen wasn’t the way Lucy had imagined at all.
Lucy wasn’t sure.
Through Lucy and Helen, Berndt seems to say: Sometimes all we can do is move towards each other and hold on until the rain stops.
['wanted'
'wasnt'
'c'
'mikeys'
'shed'
'nini'
'mikey'
'things'
'barrett'
'world'
'reasons'
'times'
'helen'
'berndt'
'lucy']