Annso’s Reviews > Best British Short Stories 2018 > Status Update

Most of them are really good

"How to be an alcoholic" is the best story so far! It'd be interesting to analyse it - there's a first part which is basically really a manual for how to be an alcoholic and there's the second part, the "case study" which has a different register and a postmodern style. It's great.

1st story: distance to characters, like E.T.A. Hoffmann, but simpler
2nd story: not going where I thought it would, characters remain far away, yet tangible, liked the ending a lot