My Child is a Stranger

<p>In My Child is a Stranger a narrator first speaks directly of posthuman ecologies then narrates a number of melancholic and intersectional stories with dystopian themes of science fiction and science reality and then bids farewell in the high heathendom of katabasis and fervor.</p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>My Child is a Stranger shows us the voices of the alienated strange or oblique pariahs of our community even if we are unable to bear it. A criminal investigator's insane interpretations of an esoteric neuropath and a journalist's equally insane reasoning about the myth of reverse racism. A minor character's manic rambling about a childhood frenemy. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>A hermit nun imagining a Bosch-like triptych in her mind while sitting on a chair of nails. An unwritten PHD thesis on the impossibility of language and hallucinogenic mushroom wine. The diasporic double consciousness of a poet laureate. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Drunken tourists intruding into the sacred rituals of Japan. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Contraband cheese smuggled from a monastery by an ex-CEO sentenced to a future that never was. Petro-capitalism in the shadow of debased utopias. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Surrealism in closed Russian cities. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Guides on how to fail. </span>Auto-crucifixion. <span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>The </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Methuselarity. Uppgivenhetssyndrom ... </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Over these scenes and more a message spreads a message in their story and their existence which no one will ever understand its comprehension not intended for human beings.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Brandon W. Teigland is a Canadian speculative fiction writer and apocalyptic realist largely concerned with pioneering the posthuman as a neo-decadent literary phenomenon. He is the author of the </span>novella <em>Under a Collapsing Sky</em> (2021) the novelette <em>Metapatterning for Disconnection</em> (2023) and the novel <em>Neuromachina</em> (2024). </p>