BOOKS, ROLLER-SKATING & THE NAKED REVIEWS

“Flying High on a Free Fall” is a speculative novel set in 2090s Zimbabwe, where assisted suicide has evolved to engender the expression: be careful what you wish for… Those wishing to die no longer travel to clinics, they write instead. Letters are sent to Suicide Inc, where agents are assigned on a case-by-case basis.

 

Told in dos-à-dos format, or two novels bound together that meet in the middle, the story unfolds from opposite sides. In one, a high school student sends a letter to Suicide Inc. In the other, unaware that their request has already set an unseen process in motion, an agent assumes the identity of a transfer student, infiltrating the teenager’s world of friendship, gossip, and crushes. As both voices spiral toward the centre, their perspectives converge in an emotional collision that blurs duty and desire, death and awakening.

 

“Flying High on a Free Fall” is a mirror-novel about consent, intimacy, and the ethics of care in a future that has professionalized empathy. Designed with two beginnings and no end, it challenges the reader to confront which story, life or death, feels more like the beginning.

Erin Honeycutt (Cutt Press)