Is it just me, or was the story suggesting what it sounded like it was suggesting? That Toby's homosexuality was because he had a fairy inside him?
Maybe it wasn't just you, but I didn't hear it that way.
Until fairly far into the story, I felt that Flashjack was an observer, not a participant (except, perhaps, to tidy his living space by putting books on bookshelves and the like). It wasn't until just before the disasters started happening that (I think) he even realized what was was going on. I got no hint that his presence caused Toby's homosexuality.
I didn't have a problem with the chapter (well, section) headings, except for "Epilogue". In most cases, the sentence to which the heading referred occurred almost immediately in that section, which I actually found to be a little amusing. I was glad of that, because I needed that touch of comic relief amongst all that darkness.
That part felt way too long and expository to be a cleaning up of the story's loose ends, which is what I generally expect an epilogue to be.
Like Listener, it took me a bit to get used to the reader's accent, and I never did figure out one word, it sounded like "repentance", but I couldn't make that make sense. The imagos of their repentance? Can someone explain (or clarify) that to me?
I think everyone had a fairy in the story. They're like a magical symbiotic parasite that either makes sense of our desires, or is a symbol of our creativity.
Actually, the story stated that not everyone had one - only those who could see them and let them in and (this is where I agree with you) foster/symbolize creativity.
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