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2.5 

Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

By Rachel Swirsky
Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse) by Rachel Swirsky digital book - Fable

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From Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky comes a time traveling adventure Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse), a Tor.com Original short story.

Chris would rather be anywhere but here, cleaning out his deceased, hateful grandparents’ house with his relatives. Each room he visits takes him back in time to another traumatic memory. To escape this house and his grandparents and his past, he’ll need to take time travel into his own hands.

Content warning for fictional depictions of verbal, physical, and sexual child abuse.

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2.5
“Seeing how this has 2.81 stars has me absolutely stumped. Most people who gave it low ratings didn’t give a review, so I can only go by the one-star who admitted it was well written but only gave it a low rating because it made them uncomfortable. I hope that isn’t the case overall, because the 2.81 out of 5 for this - for the text doing its job and executing both writing a successful short story and dealing with a topic that is meant to make you feel uncomfortable - is doing a disservice to anyone who may hesitate to read this over the rating given on Goodreads. Trauma, depression, suicidal ideation and intent as black holes where people can never comprehend from the outside in, and from the inside out information never gets out. Grief being nonlinear being expressed in a text that weaves in and out of the present. Trauma as time-traveling, memory as both self-harm and self-soothing. Generational harm. Family secrets with complicit members. Unaware members. Knowing members. I want to give it five stars just to help the rating but in truth this was 3.5 for me.”

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