Literature® by Guillermo Stitch

Literature® by Guillermo Stitch
Publisher: Nineveh Editions
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (102 pages)
Heat Level: Sweet
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

We don’t know exactly when Literature® takes place and we don’t know exactly where-all we know is that Philip Marlowe would fit right in.

But we don’t get Marlowe. We get Billy Stringer, and Billy is on nobody’s trail. He’s the prey.

The story unfolds in the course of a single day, and it hasn’t begun very well for Billy. He just messed up his first big assignment, he’s definitely going to be late for work, his girlfriend won’t get back to him and for reasons she has something to do with, he’s dressed like a clown.

Also, he’s pretty sure somebody’s going to kill him today. But then that’s an occupational hazard, when you’re a terrorist.

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Why? Because people need to get to work…

It’s fight or flight time for Billy, and he’s made his choice. But he has to see Jane, even if it’s for the last time-to explain it all to her, before she finds out what he has become. That means staying alive for a little while.

And the odds are against him…

Banning something that’s been around for millennia isn’t an easy thing to do, especially when not everyone agrees with the ban.

One of the things I enjoyed the most about the first scene was the reference to the parts of this society that didn’t agree with banning all genres of fiction. It was mentioned so casually that it was as if the characters assumed the audience lived in their same universe and understood the history of how this ban was created and why so many folks had decided to go along with it. That piqued my interest.

With that being said, it would have been helpful to have more details about the setting and time period of this tale. So many parts of it were left for the reader to make educated guesses about based on a small number of clues that I had trouble putting the pieces together. As interested as I was in figuring out what was happening and in how many ways Billy’s society was different from the one I live in, at times it was frustrating for me to have so little information to work with.

The ending was well written. There were so many different things going on in the beginning and middle that I wondered how the author was going to tie everything together in a satisfactory way. Not only did he meet my expectations, he exceeded them. Everything from Billy’s fate to why, exactly, reading fiction was so forbidden in this world was explained nicely.

I’d recommend Literature® to anyone who enjoys solving literary puzzles.