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Fiction

When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

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November 2018, no. 406

When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

University of Queensland Press, $22.95 pb, 237 pp, 9780702260216

Fiction

When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

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November 2018, no. 406

As a boy, I watched with fascination an early sci-fi horror film, The Blob. After a meteorite lands in Pennsylvania, a small, gelatinous blob emerges from the crater. Starting with an inquisitive old man who probes this runaway black pudding with his walking stick, the blob proceeds to consume, literally, everything in its path, growing in girth and bringing greater terrors with each new small-town American engorgement.

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Anthony Lynch

Anthony Lynch lives on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, where he writes poetry, fiction, and reviews. His work has appeared in The Age, The Best Australian Poems, Island, and Southerly. His short story collection Redfin (2007) was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. His poetry collection Night Train was published in late 2011 by Clouds of Magellan. He is publisher at the independent publishing house Whitmore Press and an editor at Deakin University.

Anthony Lynch reviews 'When I Saw the Animal' by Bernard Cohen

When I Saw the Animal

by Bernard Cohen

University of Queensland Press, $22.95 pb, 237 pp, 9780702260216

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