Caroljean Gavin’s story “Endangered Species” is a master class in how to use filtering through a specific and unique point of view. I love when a story enters the weird and fabulist without excuse or reference. It presents this skewed world as fact and develops this off-kilter world and its characters through a voice and point of view that isn't put-off by the weirdness around them. This is a hard act to pull off, but Gavin does this masterfully by creating a point of view character that we trust to direct us through the story and toward meaning.
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