![]() ![]() ![]() Each one trails off into the mist, leaving you feeling like, huh? what just happened? where was this going? Confusion is not mystery, art is not the act of making things impenetrable. Every story is so wound up in being this little jewel like thing that you could present at a writing workshop that it forgets to have a point, a meaning, and worst of all an ending. The author can't tell a story for a damn, which unfortunately I require in a book of short stories. And the language itself is poetic and beautiful and sometimes says the most startling things, but. ![]() Over hyped, over rated, did not live up to my expectations.Įvery one of the 8 very short stories in this collection has a wonderful premise - vampires who thirst for something other than blood, team krill at the ice floe of Antarctica, women trapped in a Japanese factory, flocks of seagulls stealing the parts of our future we most need, dead presidents as stabled horses, etc. ![]()
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