An experimental novella dealing with the limits of language, the many story fragments included within Periphery ask the reader to confront their own expectations when reading or speaking. S.F. Wilkinson attempts to aid the reader in recognizing this through rich language use, the creation and destruction of a fantasy history book, and a complex metanarrative where characters, readers, and the writer all find a place. 'Attempts' is the operative word, for between you and S.F. Wilkinson is an immeasurable chasm, an uncrossable gap, to which this novella is the Periphery.