By Joshua R. Helms

ISBN-10: 1938103440

ISBN-13: 9781938103445

Machines Like Us is a component love tale, half dreamscape, half exploration of self. For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is risky, disorienting, self-erasing. to appreciate themselves as participants, they have to examine the limits setting apart every one from the other.

Boy unearths a place underneath a tree & stretches out
taking up 1/2 the woodland flooring. Historian & I
have to maintain stepping over Boy’s limbs & sometimes
we step into one another, a pile of Boy & Historian & me.


Over the process the gathering, the 3 fight to tether and untether. They regularly disturb and upend, externally and internally. they're terrified to be with and with out one another. The ensuing horror—blood, damaged our bodies, decomposition—is a panorama, either traditional and unnatural, in their excellent failure.

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