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TJ Benson’s Debut is Grim and Great

In ‘We Won’t Fade Into Darkness’, TJ Benson offers us a piece of his ‘strange, extensive and original’ imagination

Feb 27, 2019
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TJ Benson
TJ Benson

By Chimezie Chika

WE WON'T FADE INTO DARKNESS
by TJ Benson
138pp. Parresia Books
ISBN: 978-978-55583-2-2

There is a crucial moment in one of the stories in TJ Benson’s collection of short-stories, We Won’t Fade Into Darkness, when the narrator says grimly: “Gone are the days when people set up their own businesses for personal gain and profit, the b…

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