addiction

As I write this review, I’m listening to the Belgian rock band K’s Choice hit song “Not An Addict,” the first single from their 1996 album called Paradise in Me. The lines, “It’s not a habit, it’s cool. I feel alive. If you don’t have it your on the other side,” kept playing over and over in my mind as I read the short novella, Broken Bulbs, by Eddie Wright. This brilliantly twisted farce is the story of one man’s desperate journey for what Wright so aptly calls “somethingness.”