Book Rumsy schoolchildren's blizzard

There s evidence childhood games mimic desired behaviour of fairness The Opies found there were certain fundamental truths about games that are suggestive considering how we behave as adults For example children dislike having power in a game They long to pass the power on A strange inversion of how we behave as adults This is why deciding who is to be It at the start of the game is as much a part of the game as the game itself Another truth is that a child who is It when the game stops That child feels truly ill at ease at the end of the day To leave as It can be existentially threatening They carry their It ness home with them which can be spiritually sickening R Ostermeier s new novella is a disquieting tale of the past returned and the devastating consequences that sometimes accrue from schooldays giving a disturbing insight into hidden peninsular lives Never to be reprinted as a stand alone book Rumsy Schoolchildren is strictly limited to two hundred copies It may not be for you Rumsy SchoolchildrenNewcomers to the peninsula may find it easy to get in over their heads very quickly especially if they poke at the past The protagonist of this excellent short novel discovers this when she turns discarded school desks into an art exhibition Carvings and graffiti on the desks tell a dark story enlivened by children s games and unspeakable histories Broodcomb s episodic ongoing story of a haunted landscape adds a masterful new chapter here Every volume especially those under the Ostermeier name tells strange stories in the Aickman sense the best such contemporary writing that I know It s way past time that a major publisher discovered these treasures and published a collection to share them with the world English