![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the Sandman’s visit is not its strangest occurrence. The book gathers narratives that introduce bizarre elements into familiar settings and warp a litany of habits. This story - one of the strongest in the collection - enacts Fu’s twin preoccupations with magic and the featureless landscape of bourgeois life. The Sandman eviscerates her daily torpor and offers her restorative rest, a nourishing oblivion - and, to dig a little deeper, the exquisite sense of being chosen. For Kelly, “unbroken stretches of consciousness” have dulled the natural highs and lows of life, leaving space for only the most middling experiences: calibrated office chatter, a “vague, lackadaisical” romance. Kelly lies still as a deluge of dust swells through her insides, weighing her down until she drifts into a deathlike slumber. He appears at her bedside in the dead of night to dump copious amounts of sand into her mouth. In the opening of “Sandman,” the fifth story in Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kelly, a chronic insomniac, receives a visit from the title character. ![]()
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