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Brilliant short story. I was captivated right from the beginning by Christian Perry, a
40-year-old man living with multiple split-personality. His
childhood was scarred by tragedy, but with pathetic irony, his memoirs of his
youth catapult him to literary success. But his daily struggle with his illness and his battle with the effects of
the drugs to control it contribute to his downward spiral towards destitution. With a masterpiece to complete, he has to
fight the need to take medication which disable his ability to write clearly
and silence his alters, or abandon it for the lucidity he needs—but risk
animating those alters.
This is wonderfully written; it’s fluent, expressive, touching and emotional, and in only a few pages
you feel for this complex, love-starved, mentally ill and brilliant man. Hughes is an excellent writer—she writes with
intensity and understanding. I hope she
writes a full-length novel—I was disappointed to come to the end of this story and her writing.
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