Critique of "Overlap"

“Overlap experiments with story and authorship by converging to seemingly disparate narratives at the end of the piece, and then ambiguously gesturing toward Charles Bronswick potentially writing the story, “Overlap.” The title suggests that this is the direction the fiction will move toward, and a quick once over of the text confirms these suspicions, as sections are visible and separated by three crosses. The language is this fiction is often very clear and precise, and the fiction is given to us mostly in exposition. The story ties up pretty perfectly in the end. Bronswick finds little Verdermaine’s casket and respects the dead, ordering his workers to fill in the empty space where his pool would have been.