"Ever" is the author's debut novella which could be variously interpreted and uses imaginative language along with an interesting syntactic structure. What's interesting are the bracketed paragraphs along with the poetic repetition and strong imagery embedded in a stream of consciousness narration. The brackets could be seen as representing confinement which goes along with the story's underlying message of literal confinement.
It is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where people are disappearing, light is deadly and Earth is rotting. The second half of the novella takes on a path of hallucination with the merging of the house and the human body and the inability to escape.
The novella's underlying themes are those of confinement and isolation and the merging of the physical and abstract. Though short, this portrayal of grotesque leaves a heavy and uncomfortable impression, which isn't always a bad thing.
