Full Review
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This breathtaking work takes the reader on a mind expanding journey of limitless possibility.

Eschewing the constraints of conventional prose, with it's hidebound adherence to a narrative structure and predictable formulaic tropes, the author sends the reader's mind cartwheeling into a void of possibilities.

Even the title rewards the most casual browser of internet fiction with the 'empty mind', a state long sought by Zen masters for millennia.

The main text of the story is cut to an absolute minimum, every word perfect and vital, planting an acorn of blood-curdling destruction into their mind. A single word from which a forest of horrific images can grow uninhibited, before resolving to an abrupt conclusion; a brutal, premature death echoing the singular theme of this great work.

And yet still, the author takes us onward, with another brilliant literary device. By eliminating the finality of a punctuating full-stop, he leaves room for a similarly spectacular sequel, rather as a musician might end a dark fugue on an unresolved minor seventh.

It is no wonder that the author has decided to remain anonymous. As a true artist he is now free of burdensome, constant offers of movie adaptations and merchandising opportunities, and is hard at work, employing his towering genius to craft us an award-winning sequel.

That inevitable follow-up is certainly one that I, and I'm sure many of you, look forward to with great eagerness.