{"id":4221,"date":"2019-09-03T05:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2019-09-03T05:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:23:48","slug":"4221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"Such Is the Scent of Our Sweet Opalescence by U.R.\u00a0Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>The reader of a good book can hear the narrator speaking, can even envision the narrator\u2019s gestures and facial expressions. Dactyl Review<\/em> contributing editor, U. R. Bowie consistently produces fiction that animates itself in the reader\u2019s mind. And now this, an audiobook of Bowie\u2019s short story collection, Such Is the Scent of Our Sweet Opalescence<\/em><\/a> (Ogee Zakamora, 148 pages), read by the author. (Paperback also available.) The narrator of title story is Uretherer V. Lamb, a character reminiscent of one of Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s memorable creations. The story opens when U.V. is struck by lighting in the midst of taking a leak roadside. He meets death, in the form of grinning Delmas W. Pruitt, but somehow U.V. cheats Delmas and goes on to live his life as a \u201cbackslider\u201d without a soul, it seems.
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