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Poetry, Dynamic Fiction.
The relationship between a child and their brother.
An entry for Neo-Twiny Jam 2023.
final word count: 394
Entrant - Neo-Twiny Jam
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This piece has an intriguing premise, wherein a child sees (hallucinate?) their (dead? never existed?) brother when the latter cannot be perceived by anyone else. Feelings, sounds, and touches are only experienced by this child, creating an eerie dissonance that sends chills up a spine. The more I read this the less I was sure whether it was about grief or a hallucination through a horror lens… Either way, it works!
This is a short poem entered in the Neo Twiny Jam, coming in at slightly less than 400 words.
It is a poem of consisting of short, staccato sentences of roughly equal size, some using text effects such as blur or cycling links. It covers brother who is not there, a brother who the parents refuse or are unable to see.
It has several possible interpretations, between loss, a change in self-identity, or something sinister.
There are few choices, if any, but the links there are help to guide your own pace through the poem and split it up in good spots, so the interactivity worked for me.