Closure is another lost little chapter of the Bernice Summerfield stories. Originally part of the Buried Treasures, and nowadays just a sort of freebie with another set, Closure is a very dark story full of war crimes of all sorts of varieties.

It is a very grim listen. In Buried Treasure, after the empty kookiness of Making Myths, this is a bit of tonal whiplash. Lisa Bowerman and Sarah Mowat once again do what they can with the material, but it is tough getting through the content. The idea of the story - going back in time to stop a war criminal - is interesting enough, but I feel as though the writing is overtly clumsy and really struggles with the material at hand. Really, this is just best viewed as a bit of trivia in the history of Bernice. I don't really think it is of value beyond that as all it really served was to bring down my mood a bit with some difficult material.

Closure does remind me a bit of ...Be Forgot, a short I recently read that deals with Benny coping with the fallout of a different cataclysmic war. In comparison, I think the written short better navigates that material because there is something of value to Closure - I'm just not sure it is fully realized, preferring graphic content over something more thought through.