Snag Free And Clear Imagined By Edward Drobinski Expressed As Print

Drobinski has placed the scenario of this speculative fiction in a future which is imminent enough to be unsettlingly plausible, and where the reader can feel the jolt of recognition in their own current situation.


It's also a mordant social commentary in the satirical tradition, where events taking place now are taken to extreme, highlighting the failings of economic and political policies featuring in this particular case, those of contemporary American society.


Here we find our narrator/protagonist impotent against the erosion of his civil liberties by an authoritarian deepstate bureaucracy and a corrupt financial system rigged to keep people in debt:

"When I get up the next morning I check my email to find that I have committed a minor felony in having paid off my mortgage.
A branch of the federal government known as the Department of Personal Responsibility DPR has emailed me that not to have a mortgage is detrimental to the interests of all salt of the earth, upthekazooindebted Americans.
It promises a visit from someone who could explain the problem in further detail and perform corrective action, Apparently my desire to be out of debt is viewed as a self centered assault on the public wellbeing",

Even worse is to come when he finds his home hijacked :

"Homelessness has been a problem for a century and thats forgetting about the hoboes who predated that.
The kind hearted government has found a solution, We decadent hedonists will be compelled to share our largesse, The federal government is schizophrenic and bipolar, It tells us to maximize our financial wellbeing, and then if we do well it tells us we are greedy little devils.
I suppose this would be a commentary on the electorate if they had any real choice, There is no copy of the actual law, so I cannot find the devil hiding in the details, As a law abiding American citizen, I was under the impression that I am at least entitled to a loophole or alibi".


The dry laconic narration is whipsmart and blisteringly on target, with a prose style reminiscent of David Foster Wallace.

I am looking forward to reading a lot more of this author's work, In the near future,the federal government decrees that those with too much space must share it with the homeless.
A homeowner engaged in hologram facilitating tries to deal with the intrusion, The worst book I ever read, . . So glad I didn't pay for this garbage I have no idea why I write, I know that I like to and wish I had done it all my life, Ive thought of various reasons why I started which come and go, The only one which keeps coming back, is that my beginnings coincided with when my dog, Daisy, started to slow down.
I am an embarassingyears of age now, and I enjoy writing than anything else, other than being with Daisy.
If I could venture a purpose, which isnt easy, it would be that I like to keep doing different things.
I hope readers do not want to hear the same story over and over again, They all are derivative and boring, I intend to try to tell the sagas of various people at the most interesting time of their lives, I think that to do follow ups with the same characters is m I have no idea why I write.
I know that I like to and wish I had done it all my life, I've thought of various reasons why I started which come and go, The only one which keeps coming back, is that my beginnings coincided with when my dog, Daisy, started to slow down.
I am an embarassingyears of age now, and I enjoy writing than anything else, other than being with Daisy.
If I could venture a purpose, which isn't easy, it would be that I like to keep doing different things.
I hope readers do not want to hear the same story over and over again, They all are derivative and boring, I intend to try to tell the sagas of various people at the most interesting time of their lives, I think that to do follow ups with the same characters is lucrative, but would result in lesser stories for the readers and would be tedious for me.
We are all entitled

to have some fun, Despite the logic conveyed by those most beneficial of the sadness, aren't we entitled to live and love The answer seems so obvious.
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