By 'constructive' partly I'm trying to point to certain radicalities or extremes of compositional strategy that tend to increase the artifactual, …

I picture Declan's mother as a kind of female Barry Fitzgerald, a leprechauness!

The police don't know him, and the information they have leads them to think he could possibly have murdered his wife.

Couple all that with the fact that Alvaro Martinez is on art duty for this story (he’s been my favorite Tec artist since Rebirth started) and I think what you have here is a tale worth reading.