6/28/2023 0 Comments Black light kimberly king parsons![]() ![]() But what I couldn’t shake, even days later, was the depth of Parsons’s understanding of the human heart. ![]() It was her voice-fierce, gritty, twangy, and dark-that initially pulled me in her use of language both unexpected and apt that kept me reading at an almost frightening pace. I first encountered her work while reading submissions for the literary journal No Tokens back in 2016. Parsons writes with bleak humor and offbeat wisdom about thwarted desire: aching friendships, doomed love affairs, marriages gone stale. Such is an ordinary sequence of events for a character fashioned by Parsons’s singular mind. Case in point: in “Glow Hunter,” when the impossibly magnetic Bo gets shards of glass embedded in her hand while doing parking-lot cartwheels, she pours Mountain Dew on the gash, watches it fizz, and goes about her day (which involves hunting for magic mushrooms in roadside cowpats). ![]() Parsons gives her characters ample space to make mistakes, and they do-repeatedly-but we love them no less for it. The Texan girls and women who populate Black Light, Kimberly King Parsons’s debut story collection, are messy and loud and unapologetic. ![]()
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