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Story 3 - Stag Dance

totally different ball game in terms of scope and craft . Every story explores gender politics but I don't really understand why these are even published together beyond that. Found this very compelling. I just don't read enough so the fact that it's written totally in the language i'd anticipate from a 19th century logging camp gave it like a billion times the character of the other stories

Story 2 - The chaser

I thought this was really trash to be honest . The perspective of the main character is boring and monotonous In the bad way. Very ridiculous for a pretty grounded story. Even the pig metaphor is goofy af. Trash . I would stop reading but the next one is the titular story so whatever. Whatever

the first story - Infect your friends and loved ones. What initially i thought was quite an interesting concept became unspectacular. It's sort of hard to sell the characters and do a whole world building thing in 50 pages . the brief introspective on the relationship pre apocalypse was most interesting. Apparently this short story was one of the author's first published works . I won't hold it against you