Boris Says the Words

Kyle Winkler


Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
5.00 · 1 ratings · Published: 29 May 2022

Boris Says the Words by Kyle Winkler
Radioactive waste sites act as refugee housing. A giant metal bird grazes the countryside. A gelatinous body-switching drug is sought to help perform folk healings. Most of the world is unusable, a victim of runaway nuclear disasters. The future is a landfill. Read all about it...

In the ruined and irradiated village of Bulm, Pavel helps a drug-addicted witch and her deathly ill son survive. In the American Midwest, Katya Mirov falls in love with Alejandro Po, a baker coping with multiple sclerosis. Everyone is, in some way, tangled in a web with Boris, rural healer and speaker of "the tea words." When spoken the right way, the words can move disease outside the body--but the disease then must transfer into another innocent person. Those around Boris begin to learn the chaotic carousel of words, and the fabric of reality shreds. This is a cockeyed novel of lunatic speculative vision, touched by elements of horror and science fiction. And sad, sad, sad.

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