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review by Carolina Smart
Stu is stuck in limbo and bored out of his skull with no one to talk to, no TV, radio or any other type of entertainment. Out the blue appears a scraggy old cat called ‘Old Tom’. Without question Stu puts all of his trust in Old Tom and allows him to lead him down an unknown path. A path that ends up being ‘Heaven’. Could Stu finding his way to heaven have been a mistake? I’m not going to let you know, you have to pick up a copy of The Distance Travelled: A Little Slice of Heaven, to find out. Cleverly written by co-authors Brett Alexander Savory and Gord Zajac, this is a chapbook everyone should read. I am a personal fan of other people's points of view of what they think heaven, hell and limbo are and this one is exceptional. Written with the same biting humour as [Christopher Moore's] Lamb, The Distance Travelled, takes you down a road to a very different type of adventure, though I wish someone would explain why there are so many rabbits in heaven. If this is any indication of the quality of chapbooks we will be seeing in the future from Burning Effigy Press, then I’m making sure I’m on their mailing list.