[Parallel Rivers 01] • Parallel Rivers

Parallel Rivers is a collection of stories that were coaxed into existence from Michael Kenyon’s interest in seeing what fiction might learn from film, particularly the German, French, Italian, and Japanese cinema of the 70s.

The collection has two sections that run stylistically parallel to each other. The first section consists of short, often surreal or uncomfortable fictions; the second contains longer stories of larger, more realistic worlds. In the shorter fictions, each story creates its own world order, and presents hyper-utilizations of point of view, time shifts, and disconnected physical detail. In the longer pieces considerably more tradition and familiarity are used.

These fictions exist as dreams exist, yet within this framework truth is revealed and the full play of language exercised.