Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #22 January 2016 | Page 31

of her funeral, he gets into a fight in the bar he works
at and is fired. The guy he beat up files charges and the
police are after Evan. He leaves the US, picking Italy
at random. He winds up at a sea-side town, Polignano
a Mare, where he catches the eye of Louise. After
some flirtation, the two form a quick and intimate
bond. However, Louise is not what she seems. Evan
discovers she has a horrific secret. Will love win out in
the end?
“I am not a sociopath, okay? I just have really
bad luck.” - Louise
Spring takes some of the tropes of the starcrossed lovers romance genre and gives them a nice
twist. The girl has a secret, but it’s not that she used
to be fat or is really a secretary and not a princess or
has a controlling family; it is that she is an immortal
mutant, whose genetic code runs riot every couple of
decades and she sprouts teeth, tentacles and murderous
impulses. Evan is a little closer to a stereotype;
however, Pucci makes him very appealing. It was
a good idea to have him spend some screen-time
with his drunk, drug-using friend Tommy (Jeremy
Gardner). When he arrives in Italy, he first travels with
two Englishmen on holiday, who are basically looking
to drink heavily and find women. These relationships
are juxtaposed with one Evan forms with an elderly
farmer, Angelo (Francesco Carnelutti), who hires
him as a farmhand when he arrives in Polignano. We
get to see the effects that life’s challenges have had
on Evan when he’s with the ‘lads,’ but also his more
inquisitive, sensitive side when he is with Angelo,
without his chara