Status Updates From The Wine-Dark Sea

So purple! Tires spinning in mud. Not enjoying this one

So far I’ve had to use a dictionary twelve times

These short stories got me pulling my feet back under the covers REAL quick😂

5/14.5:3. The Trains. Read in We Are for the Dark.

5/9.5:2. The Wine-Dark Sea. Hypnotic dream like story with plenty of wonder and an abrupt awakening of an ending.

Your Tiny Hand is Frozen. 4.5. A very compelling story slightly let down by a confusing ending. Maybe it was just absurd by design, or maybe the flaky setting of the type in this book played a part. Either way it was abrupt and confusing in the home straight.

Eight stories to be read out of sequence of the collection, and sometimes from other volumes, so each is 12.5%

Reading selected stories in this book and The Late Breakfasters & Other Stories as substitute for Powers of Darkness in my chronological Aickman re-read 2025.