This book
sounded interesting when I first heard about it, but I wondered what vacui magia meant. It sounded Italian or
Greek.
A collection
of short stories, Vacui Magia, explores myth and nightmare in a fantasy sense.
In “Little
Men with Knives,” a bored cafeteria lady that is “too old to work and too poor
to quit” finds solace and envy in little dwarves that appear at night. “Like
stray cats. Stray cats that do housework. My craziness in a nutshell…As nasty
as they are, I doubt any of them lie away at night, hating the present,
terrified of the future. I doubt they’re afraid of anything at all.” (14) I
related to this character the most!
Simple and
witty, these stories are uniquely relatable, written in a mix between fiction
and haiku. Stories were compelling, for the most part, but they were also
riddled with confusion, perplexing the reader. They almost put you in the
Twilight Zone. Weird, yet oddly compelling. Of course, once you get into this confused
state and the details are strained with lengthiness, it becomes quite weary.
Nonetheless,
these stories were interesting for the most part. Fantastically creepy cover
though.
My rating: 3.5 stars
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