Black Hole Town by Henry Hinder – Reviewed by Guy Portman
Friends Fortz and Goose are degenerate drinkers and drug users. Goose is fed up with his psychotic, pill-popping girlfriend Miley, so he hatches a plan with his pal to escape town. Goose hopes to make a fresh start in a place where he has been promised a job at PC World. The drugs have been purchased and they are all set to go. But leaving is going to prove to be far more difficult than they anticipated. Presumably, this is a metaphor for how difficult it is to change our behaviour.
Black Hole Town is an aptly named novelette with echoes of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It boasts memorable characters, visceral prose and an abundance of effectively employed adjectives. This reader was immensely impressed by youthful Transgressive author Hinder’s literary debut.
