When the soul has been thoroughly poisoned, the body must abandon it. Everything feels unreal afterwards, but plastic heads shed no tears. Bram Stoker Award® winning author Nicole Cushing offers an excursion into the Weird, a quiet novella of a madwoman in a mad town, as an Episcopal priest grapples with the meaning of faith, reality, and if there is anything real to either of them, at the end of it all.
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Reverend Ford is not Revered Ford.- The Childless Mother Introduced
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(@CemeteryDance, 12 December 2023, e-galley, 108 pages, #ARC @NetGalley)
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I enjoyed The Plastic Priest a lot. I expected it to be more of a horror read and it goes get there, very subtly and not until the final pages of this short, gripping read. I liked the fact the priest is a woman and a married one at that, a bit feisty and starting to question her lot in life. Her descent into madness is almost heart-breaking and I really felt for her.
