Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn review – luminescent experiments in narrative voice

With his conversational tone and ironic humour, Flynn distills the idiosyncrasies of our internal monologues – while lending them to the inanimate. Composite: UQP

Reading Here Be Leviathans, I was reminded that everyone – you, me, all of us – will die. Sooner or later, everyone we love, everyone we hate, everyone we’ve never given a thought to: dead.

Mortality and our shared coexistence – these are the elemental concerns of Chris Flynn’s debut collection of short fiction. As a fire says to humanity – if not the universe itself – in Shot Down in Flames: “I will find you and I will devour you, for I am Alpha and Omega. I was there at the beginning, and I will be there at the end. There is no escape.”