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whistberry's review
4.0
Very intriguing collection of short tales in the spirit of Kafka and Poe, loosely related by their dark themes and sometimes ironic tone or plot. Standouts for me were Love and Rockets, a pleasingly deadpan and strangely poetic retelling of a courtship gone disastrously awry; Journey of Loss, a folkloric musing on loss and evolution of self; A Dark Thread, a tale of (literal and figurative) alienation and madness; IEP, a too chillingly realistic sketch of a very modern-day horror; and moniker, a dreamlike meditation on transformation. The stories are all quite varied in length, subject, and style, so I think fans of original storytelling will find their own favorites in this thought-provoking collection.
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