Bursts of Existential Powerlessness: Review of WE HAD IT COMING
Posted by The Arts Fuse on November 19, 2025
"O’Neil doesn’t want us to judge a piece of writing by its length, but to focus on what happens when it challenges us about what writing and story-telling means — how it tests our perceptions of ourselves. We Had It Coming is a collection of existentialist incitements of various lengths, attempts at undercutting national myths and their attendant mayhems, that dare readers to do more than parse imprisoning fictions."