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Your Smallest Bones: Stories
Twelve stories- seven previously published and two Pushcart Prize nominations- highlight this collection of short fiction. Empathy is examined as we help push a grand piano onto a frozen lake or read century old lost braille love letters. They play the lighthearted adventure of language while taming the overwhelming significance of tiny things.The following stories have previously appeared and Weightless - Pantheon Magazine, (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize) April 2014 ISBN 1494415577How Josh Met Emily - Full of Crow Quarterly, February 2014, ISSN 2157-3530Hands Pressing Play - Whisperings Magazine, Summer 2014, ISBN 1494415577It Sings us Both to Sleep - (Part 2 of Weak Nights) Sparkle and Blink 40 (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize) ISBN 978-1-300-10313-4Where Pickled Jalapeños Grow - Coe Review, Volume 44, Issue 2What You’re Waiting For - Instant City 8, ISSN 1937-0784The Burden of Legitimacy - East Coast Literary Review, Fall Edition, 2014 ISBN 1500852775And Petrichor Machine #5 ISSN 2160-9403These stories are minimalistic in nature, they are what you grabbed when you ran from the fire, from the divorce, what you needed, not what you wanted. Written sparse and strong they are the always only necessities.
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First published November 19, 2014
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Sean Taylor
3 books8 followersSean Taylor has published fiction in Pantheon, Instant City, The Evergreen Review, The Coe Review, Full of Crow Fiction. He was nominated for The 2012 Pushcart by Sparkle and Blink as well as the 2014 Pushcart by Pantheon Magazine. His first collection Everything to do with You was published by Seventh Tangent in 2010. His second collection titled Your Smallest Bones will be released February 2015 on Seventh Tangent Press.
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February 22, 2015
Your Smallest Bones is a compilation of twelve short stories about life and the incredibly small aspects – small bones, that are reminders of our human frailty. Primarily set in San Francisco, seven of the stories from this unique collection have appeared in various literary journals and two nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Rising author Sean Taylor knows how to “tailor” (no pun intended) a concept into story format. Quite a wordsmith, Taylor utilizes a wide variety of descriptive literary devices to breath life into his first and third person narratives. Taylor includes a blend of hyperboles and mixed metaphors that not only add both seriousness and comedy to his storytelling, but also give readers a moment to contemplate on his verbal presentation, and in that process hopefully grasp each story’s nuances. Lines such as “It was freezing outside, and she was backless in Alaska” and “We played amnesia for the security cameras” capture just a glimpse of what is in store for readers.
Taylor presents a slew characters – from young to old – amid an assortment of situations that is tightly coupled with Taylor’s colorful writing style. Some characters are purely nameless, as in the case of the apartment tenants that lace the vignettes in Weak Nights, the couple in This Is Too Much, and the narrator in What You’re Waiting For. Some stories have a combination of both, such as the nameless young man and his ex-girlfriend Maria in Flight and Weightlessness, the nine-year-old boy amid his named siblings in Ten Fingers Ten Toes, and the homeless man and his itinerant buddies, Jay and Bryce, in The Burden of Legitimacy. Full-bodied characters are found in stories, such as How Josh Met Emily, Hands Pressing Play, The Cherry in Spite of You, Depluralize the Pair, Where Pickled Jalapenos Grow, and Together Selfishly.
Regardless of the casting combo, Taylor easily draws readers into many familiar common-life scenarios that zero in minute facets – many times themes – of life that shine a light on human weakness. Scenarios are set in homes, hotels, nursing homes, and even among mattresses. Themes range from childhood mishaps and viewpoints on Heaven and Hell, death and dying, separation, growing old, and love jaunts. Speaking of love jaunts, Together Selfishly is one of those stories that will catch readers off guard. Seriously! And a quick word about reading the vignettes in Weak Nights: readers who are familiar with Hitchcock’s Rear Window may think back to L.B. Jefferies (aka Jeff), the wheel chair-bound professional photographer who gives a running commentary on his various tenants as he views them through his binoculars.
For readers who are looking for a book filled with great, thought-provoking human interest stories, Your Smallest Bones is unquestionably your next best read.
Originally posted on San Francisco Book Review.
Reviewed by Anita Lock
Rising author Sean Taylor knows how to “tailor” (no pun intended) a concept into story format. Quite a wordsmith, Taylor utilizes a wide variety of descriptive literary devices to breath life into his first and third person narratives. Taylor includes a blend of hyperboles and mixed metaphors that not only add both seriousness and comedy to his storytelling, but also give readers a moment to contemplate on his verbal presentation, and in that process hopefully grasp each story’s nuances. Lines such as “It was freezing outside, and she was backless in Alaska” and “We played amnesia for the security cameras” capture just a glimpse of what is in store for readers.
Taylor presents a slew characters – from young to old – amid an assortment of situations that is tightly coupled with Taylor’s colorful writing style. Some characters are purely nameless, as in the case of the apartment tenants that lace the vignettes in Weak Nights, the couple in This Is Too Much, and the narrator in What You’re Waiting For. Some stories have a combination of both, such as the nameless young man and his ex-girlfriend Maria in Flight and Weightlessness, the nine-year-old boy amid his named siblings in Ten Fingers Ten Toes, and the homeless man and his itinerant buddies, Jay and Bryce, in The Burden of Legitimacy. Full-bodied characters are found in stories, such as How Josh Met Emily, Hands Pressing Play, The Cherry in Spite of You, Depluralize the Pair, Where Pickled Jalapenos Grow, and Together Selfishly.
Regardless of the casting combo, Taylor easily draws readers into many familiar common-life scenarios that zero in minute facets – many times themes – of life that shine a light on human weakness. Scenarios are set in homes, hotels, nursing homes, and even among mattresses. Themes range from childhood mishaps and viewpoints on Heaven and Hell, death and dying, separation, growing old, and love jaunts. Speaking of love jaunts, Together Selfishly is one of those stories that will catch readers off guard. Seriously! And a quick word about reading the vignettes in Weak Nights: readers who are familiar with Hitchcock’s Rear Window may think back to L.B. Jefferies (aka Jeff), the wheel chair-bound professional photographer who gives a running commentary on his various tenants as he views them through his binoculars.
For readers who are looking for a book filled with great, thought-provoking human interest stories, Your Smallest Bones is unquestionably your next best read.
Originally posted on San Francisco Book Review.
Reviewed by Anita Lock
December 22, 2014
Sean Taylor has created a pocket for readers to store their most delicate thoughts, their most impossible hopes, and their most intricate memories. This pocket is not unlike the one found in jeans, the smallest one that rests just below where the right hip bone juts from the belt line, the one most often empty, where musicians keep guitar picks and married men hide their wedding rings when their wives are out of town.
The stories in this collection are windows into humanity. They accomplish what any great piece of writing should always strive to do— illuminate something about the human condition. The stories center largely around residents of San Francisco; starving for love and validation in a mish-mashed city of hodgepodge all stacked on top of one another sharing the air to breathe. Much in the way Jhumpa Lahiri speaks to readers of any cultural background through stories of Indian-Americans, or how John Cheever's work is applicable to people of any social class despite its focus on wealthy New Yorkers, Sean Taylor has created stories which subtly ask a reader, of any cultural or socioeconomic background, to look inside themselves, and into their own culture, and wonder what it means to be part of a conglomerate, as well as singularly, within one's self.
Sean Taylor does this through a focus, manifesting often as a meditation, on the smallest parts of an individual, like the vertebra in our backs, or distance between hairs on our heads, or the gaps between our toes. These things we often overlook, ignoring them in hopes of flushed cheeks and a pounding heart, the perfect reflection of lamplight from someone's eyes. But life doesn't always give signals so obviously. Sometimes it does so through the small things, the smallest bones.
Since reading this collection I find myself wondering about people I pass on the sidewalk, sit next to on the train, or even glimpse for a moment through a window, wondering about how their hair looks in the morning, how they push back their cuticles, or if they do. Because this is the pocket, the one most often empty, that Sean Taylor has created. The woman selling cigarettes and cough medicine at the drug store, what she has in her tiny pocket, the one just below her right hip bone, could be what is most important to you, and you didn't even know it.
The next time you see a man in the rain without an umbrella, don't wonder where he is walking to with such conviction, wonder what is in his tiny pocket. It could be a guitar pick, or a wedding ring, or it could be a whole lot more.
The stories in this collection are windows into humanity. They accomplish what any great piece of writing should always strive to do— illuminate something about the human condition. The stories center largely around residents of San Francisco; starving for love and validation in a mish-mashed city of hodgepodge all stacked on top of one another sharing the air to breathe. Much in the way Jhumpa Lahiri speaks to readers of any cultural background through stories of Indian-Americans, or how John Cheever's work is applicable to people of any social class despite its focus on wealthy New Yorkers, Sean Taylor has created stories which subtly ask a reader, of any cultural or socioeconomic background, to look inside themselves, and into their own culture, and wonder what it means to be part of a conglomerate, as well as singularly, within one's self.
Sean Taylor does this through a focus, manifesting often as a meditation, on the smallest parts of an individual, like the vertebra in our backs, or distance between hairs on our heads, or the gaps between our toes. These things we often overlook, ignoring them in hopes of flushed cheeks and a pounding heart, the perfect reflection of lamplight from someone's eyes. But life doesn't always give signals so obviously. Sometimes it does so through the small things, the smallest bones.
Since reading this collection I find myself wondering about people I pass on the sidewalk, sit next to on the train, or even glimpse for a moment through a window, wondering about how their hair looks in the morning, how they push back their cuticles, or if they do. Because this is the pocket, the one most often empty, that Sean Taylor has created. The woman selling cigarettes and cough medicine at the drug store, what she has in her tiny pocket, the one just below her right hip bone, could be what is most important to you, and you didn't even know it.
The next time you see a man in the rain without an umbrella, don't wonder where he is walking to with such conviction, wonder what is in his tiny pocket. It could be a guitar pick, or a wedding ring, or it could be a whole lot more.
March 24, 2015
Thanks again to Goodreads for an opportunity to read a book that would likely have passed by my notice without the giveaways here.
Sean Taylor has crafted something truly magical with this tiny little collection of stories.Vignettes narrated by voices that are gentle, wise and poetic. Sean writes from the viewpoint of a curious child as easily as he writes from the perspective of a confused elderly person mourning the loss of a loved one in all of it's jagged pain. What lies between the covers of this small, brilliant collection is truly poignant in it's vision of humans and our lives. Childhood broken bones, found braille letters from a love from the worlds past, the changes we endure in our love, growth, relationships as well as the stewardship of our own destinies...the author confronts and creates these slices of life with a reverence and respect for humanity that feels like poetry.
The simplest of truths are so often the most moving and profound. As an author, Sean Taylor reminds us of this, word after carefully chosen word. Sean Taylor is an artist and Your Smallest Bones is undoubtedly art. Masterful art that strips us all of everything that masks the truth that we are indeed small frail humans on a quite often sad and yet beautiful journey through life. I was not entertained as much as validated in my human experience as I read this.If only we could all see the lives that surround us in the way that Sean Taylor has in "Your Smallest Bones".
Sean Taylor has crafted something truly magical with this tiny little collection of stories.Vignettes narrated by voices that are gentle, wise and poetic. Sean writes from the viewpoint of a curious child as easily as he writes from the perspective of a confused elderly person mourning the loss of a loved one in all of it's jagged pain. What lies between the covers of this small, brilliant collection is truly poignant in it's vision of humans and our lives. Childhood broken bones, found braille letters from a love from the worlds past, the changes we endure in our love, growth, relationships as well as the stewardship of our own destinies...the author confronts and creates these slices of life with a reverence and respect for humanity that feels like poetry.
The simplest of truths are so often the most moving and profound. As an author, Sean Taylor reminds us of this, word after carefully chosen word. Sean Taylor is an artist and Your Smallest Bones is undoubtedly art. Masterful art that strips us all of everything that masks the truth that we are indeed small frail humans on a quite often sad and yet beautiful journey through life. I was not entertained as much as validated in my human experience as I read this.If only we could all see the lives that surround us in the way that Sean Taylor has in "Your Smallest Bones".
October 11, 2015
I have read two short stories collections this week. The first was "Black Dahlia & White Rose" by Joyce Carol Oates, and the second was this collection by Sean Taylor. The contrast between these two collections could not be more staggering. Oates's collection is filled with stories she might have written in an afternoon, did not proofread, and basically said, "Screw it. Good enough." Taylor's collection is the complete opposite. His stories are smartly constructed, his plots are strong and his characters are well developed. His stories are heartbreaking and gut-wrenching as if some of these stories, some of the small details, are not things that he made up, but things that he is using as little hints to lovers he has lost. Like every collection, there are some stories that are better than others, but as whole, this is a solid, lyrical, wonderful short story collection. And much much better than anything Joyce Carol Oates is producing.
June 5, 2015
I received this as an ARC via Goodreads and the Author.
‘Your Smallest Bones’ is a short-story collection from American writer Sean Taylor. As I started to read the first story ‘Flight and Weightless’, I started to gauge what type of writer Sean seemed to be; one with an effortless flow of prose, gently put on paper seamlessly. It is a story of life and death and what it means to see a loved one die in their own way; with dignity as they slowly perish or slip away by the fingertips which bind you completely: cancerous rage subsided, ready for pain to cease.
As I read on through the others, I can honestly say I was less impressed, but as a whole, not an overall mess. If you must, read it for the story above. It’s as good as one you’ll find in today’s short-story pool of talent.
Rated a 2 here, but would give it a 2.5 if possible.
‘Your Smallest Bones’ is a short-story collection from American writer Sean Taylor. As I started to read the first story ‘Flight and Weightless’, I started to gauge what type of writer Sean seemed to be; one with an effortless flow of prose, gently put on paper seamlessly. It is a story of life and death and what it means to see a loved one die in their own way; with dignity as they slowly perish or slip away by the fingertips which bind you completely: cancerous rage subsided, ready for pain to cease.
As I read on through the others, I can honestly say I was less impressed, but as a whole, not an overall mess. If you must, read it for the story above. It’s as good as one you’ll find in today’s short-story pool of talent.
Rated a 2 here, but would give it a 2.5 if possible.
April 16, 2015
While some of the stories show promise, overall this collection just does not do it for me. More often than not the prose varies in voice and consistency and what could be considered poetic language looks more like drunken ramblings. The good stories--about a third of the book--don't take 'it' to the level they could and I was left disappointed. As a small sidenote: even though this was an ARC there was an overwhelming number of typos, etc in addition to the fact that the acknowledgements page mentions a Pushcart-nominated story that is not in the collection (or if it is the title was changed and this was not recorded)
May 22, 2015
I came across this book by the good graces of the author and Goodreads. This is the first time I've come across the young, Pushcart Prize nominated Taylor's work and I'm grateful. these 12, sometimes minimalist tales are the are some of the finest short stories I've read in some time. From the first story, “Flight and Weightless,” a story of a young, recently separated couple who, by circumstances I won't reveal here, push a grand piano onto a frozen lake. The dialogue between the two echos the work of Raymond Carver or even Rick Bass but ultimately gives the reader a good idea of the unique voice behind these stories.
There's a touch of surrealism in the narration of these tales. In "Hands Pressing Play" a deaf musician paints the keys of his upright piano’s keys in the colors of the light spectrum while a woman records the audio of her and her younger lovers for a ominous project in "Together Selfishly". A playful language and stories stripped of superfluous, flowery wordplay make this small collection stand out and offers me hope that a novel or another short story collection from Taylor is around the bend. I'll be anxious to read more but in the meantime I'll certainly be revisiting these stories and recommending them to others.
There's a touch of surrealism in the narration of these tales. In "Hands Pressing Play" a deaf musician paints the keys of his upright piano’s keys in the colors of the light spectrum while a woman records the audio of her and her younger lovers for a ominous project in "Together Selfishly". A playful language and stories stripped of superfluous, flowery wordplay make this small collection stand out and offers me hope that a novel or another short story collection from Taylor is around the bend. I'll be anxious to read more but in the meantime I'll certainly be revisiting these stories and recommending them to others.
June 4, 2015
Taylor's playfulness with our language is a treat. I got a freebie version through BookBub, and I then I bought this book. I wanted one that I could hold in my hand and reread passages. I want to underline sentences.
Some reviewer complained about formatting. Formatting can be fixed. Copy editing would be helpful. BUT formatting and editing have nothing to do with real talent. When I finished the first story, i paced around the house with the hairs on my arms standing up, tingling! I've never had that kind of reaction to a book before (and it wasn't the flu). I'm very impressed.
I hope the author will write many more books. And I hope lots of readers find him.
Some reviewer complained about formatting. Formatting can be fixed. Copy editing would be helpful. BUT formatting and editing have nothing to do with real talent. When I finished the first story, i paced around the house with the hairs on my arms standing up, tingling! I've never had that kind of reaction to a book before (and it wasn't the flu). I'm very impressed.
I hope the author will write many more books. And I hope lots of readers find him.
May 20, 2015
I read this concurrently with Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, a novel I gave five stars, so I can say with some authority that I enjoy stories about isolated eccentric people with quirky speech patterns. The difference is that Fowler manages to be earnest without always being deadly serious. Taylor's characters, on the other hand, always seem to be in the midst of a crisis, and so determined to wring every drop of meaning they an from the situation that there's no room for humor or irony. I won't say that it's bad, just that I disliked it, which is what a single star means.
January 13, 2015
"Your Smallest Bones, by Sean Taylor
Peculiar little things, like wanting to know how many teeth are in your zipper when you're a 9-year-old too afraid to jump, and surreal, impossible things, like pushing a grand piano into the center of a frozen lake, anchor the watching and waiting and wondering of introverts who often mistake random chance for omens as they reach out to touch the world to see if it is real."-SF Weekly Winter Arts 2015
Feb. 1, Seven7h Tangent
Peculiar little things, like wanting to know how many teeth are in your zipper when you're a 9-year-old too afraid to jump, and surreal, impossible things, like pushing a grand piano into the center of a frozen lake, anchor the watching and waiting and wondering of introverts who often mistake random chance for omens as they reach out to touch the world to see if it is real."-SF Weekly Winter Arts 2015
June 24, 2015
50 of 75 in 2015. I found this collection of short stories both lyrical and disturbing. Written in a cross between blank verse and stream of consciousness, the stories treat such subjects as homelessness, assisted suicide, breaking up. Often bleak in outlook, the stories remain fascinating, due largely to the author's gift with words. I recommend the collection with this caveat--I did not find the stories uplifting, rather depressing, but well written.
January 20, 2015
A GOOD COLLECTION OF SHORT STORY THAT READ MORE AS A POEM THAN A STORY I LOVED FLIGHT AND WEIGHTLESS PLAYING A PIANO ON A FROZEN LAKE AND HANDS PRESSING PLAY THE LOVE LETTER IN BRAILLE THANKS TO GOODREADS FIRSTREADS FOR THE FREE BOOK
July 15, 2015
Beautiful anthology of short stories with fluid, lyrical writing styles. I enjoyed trying to uncover the link to "bones" in each story, as suggested by the title. It's there--sometimes more subtle than you might anticipate! A great read.
April 1, 2015
Some impressively bleak and beautiful pieces here, easily making up for the one or two that I didn't think worked as well.
July 7, 2015
14% through and I refuse to submit myself to this experience for another minute. I've been dreading going back to this for reasons pointed out in other reviews.
Dreary, awful, dull. Ugh.
Dreary, awful, dull. Ugh.
June 18, 2015
This was not my cup of tea. The stories were all depressing with nothing to make you care about the characters.
May 11, 2015
I stopped about a third of the the way through. The stories I read didn't seem to resolve anything, they just kind of ended. Not my style. I didn't really understand the stories I read.
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May 18, 2015I love books of short stories but not sure I can recommend this one...I had a hard time getting into the stories and understanding the deeper meanings
May 20, 2015
Nothing I would recommend. Odd story.
July 7, 2015
Eclectic collection
The collection of stories were all well done with interesting twists to draw you in and keep your attention- good summer read
The collection of stories were all well done with interesting twists to draw you in and keep your attention- good summer read
August 3, 2016
Amazing writing. Poetry and short story had a baby, and it is this book.
August 7, 2023
i liked this book, had quirky characters and stories and things never ended up where you thought they might.
July 23, 2017
Taylor keeps to the spirit of his title and writes into the smallest of psychic places in relationships throughout all his stories. His narrator brings a refreshingly sympathetic voice to the idiocies and idiosyncrasies particular to love relationships. I enjoyed “Hands Pressing Play” and "Where Pickled Jalapeños Grow,” both of which I think are excellent in conveying the angst of separation and the pull of “her” on a man. It is apparent that Taylor experiments with language and thought, and in his strongest pieces he is reasonably successful. However, I feel in other places the writing is awkward, and at times the point of reference is not clear.
July 28, 2018
I won a copy of Your Smallest Bones: Stories by Sean Taylor from Goodreads.
What makes a simple moment momentous? I'm his book, Your Smallest Bones: Stories, Sean Taylor presents the reader with everyday moments (with one exception) experienced by average people that achieve something extraordinary and uncommon.
Readers will find many delights in each of these twelve stories. The author plays with language, causing the reader to laugh, sigh, and gasp in surprise, while the deceptively simple plots unfold. Each tale is thought provoking, and readers will reflect upon them long after the final page is read.
What makes a simple moment momentous? I'm his book, Your Smallest Bones: Stories, Sean Taylor presents the reader with everyday moments (with one exception) experienced by average people that achieve something extraordinary and uncommon.
Readers will find many delights in each of these twelve stories. The author plays with language, causing the reader to laugh, sigh, and gasp in surprise, while the deceptively simple plots unfold. Each tale is thought provoking, and readers will reflect upon them long after the final page is read.
November 21, 2017
This book of short stories was definitely not my cup of tea and if I wasn't reading it for a reading challenge, I would have stopped about halfway through.
November 29, 2020
It felt like I was just reading one long thing by the end. No character or plot was really grabbing me.
December 29, 2017
More poetry than prose, these short stories are odd but, thanks to the author's good command of language, also interesting -not in content, but in structure and style.
June 25, 2015
Should you read this collection of short stories? Yes. Just know that this work is best enjoyed by those looking for something deeper, something riddled with observation and meaning.
I liked this collection. I liked it in the same way I like my more conservative minded friends; I am happy to know them and have them as friends even though I don't quite understand what goes on in there all the time. For me, Sean Taylor's collection of short stories is like that.
Sometimes difficult to read, often times oddly poetic, Your Smallest Bones: Stories is a fresh and slightly skewed perspective of life's moments. The prose styling of the author are at times unconventional and traverse like a poorly maintained road; you get to where you need to go but it isn't smooth or easy. That said, his highly creative and original use of simile and metaphor offer a level of cerebral stimulation not widely found amongst the self-published literati. These gems are strewn freely throughout and make what could otherwise be an arduous trek an imaginative and perceptive experience.
I give it a three star for technical, not creative reasons. The issues here are prose structure, editing and proof reading. A little patience prior to release would have paid dividends.
I liked this collection. I liked it in the same way I like my more conservative minded friends; I am happy to know them and have them as friends even though I don't quite understand what goes on in there all the time. For me, Sean Taylor's collection of short stories is like that.
Sometimes difficult to read, often times oddly poetic, Your Smallest Bones: Stories is a fresh and slightly skewed perspective of life's moments. The prose styling of the author are at times unconventional and traverse like a poorly maintained road; you get to where you need to go but it isn't smooth or easy. That said, his highly creative and original use of simile and metaphor offer a level of cerebral stimulation not widely found amongst the self-published literati. These gems are strewn freely throughout and make what could otherwise be an arduous trek an imaginative and perceptive experience.
I give it a three star for technical, not creative reasons. The issues here are prose structure, editing and proof reading. A little patience prior to release would have paid dividends.
February 28, 2016
I realized last year that I hadn't been nourishing my love for short stories. I resolved to read a short story after each full-length book that I finish.
This has been a successful enjoyable venture. Until now. I can't recall a single one of these stories. I came to dread reading them, & was glad to find tonight was the last one.
The thing is, they're not written badly. But there is no depth, no connection to the characters, no memorable plots, or lines, just nothing to make these stand out at all.
So I'm disappointed. And it hurts me to give it just one star. But the truth is I just don't like it, so I have no choice.
This has been a successful enjoyable venture. Until now. I can't recall a single one of these stories. I came to dread reading them, & was glad to find tonight was the last one.
The thing is, they're not written badly. But there is no depth, no connection to the characters, no memorable plots, or lines, just nothing to make these stand out at all.
So I'm disappointed. And it hurts me to give it just one star. But the truth is I just don't like it, so I have no choice.
August 18, 2016
There's a video of John Cleese speaking words that have the proper cadence and sound combinations to be English, but really he's just spouting gibberish. It's fascinating and very well done. These stories reminded me a lot of that. If the prose had made sense I have a feeling it could have been excellent, but alas, pretentious nonsense was the end result.
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