Mel (Epic Reading)’s Reviews > The Road to Woop Woop, and Other Stories > Status Update

While these stories are all fine, none of them have popped out at me except maybe one. I’m hoping for one near the end here to really sparkle

Stories have definitely been improving the further I get.

Some of these are more snippets than stories.
Others I feel like there should be more to them. It could be they are Australian legends, myths, or fables that those native to the area would know and I just don’t (I’m Canadian).
Overall none of them are leaving me with a short story punch or impact (which is what I love about short stories is the ability to say lots with so little). Instead they are forgettable.

Between each short story there is shorter prose ~3-6 pages. Each seems to be about an Australian entity or nature that influences the world. It’s very clever the way they are set up (and with a beautiful illustrative page to start) and seem to influence the next story. I split them up early on and that seems to have been a mistake as they are a part of an overall narrative within this book of stories.

Short Story: A Case of Seeing
I think a mistake was made here. This story should be a full fledged murder mystery novel. While not a genre I often read even I can see the uniqueness and complexity put into this 34 pages. It’s really too bad it’s not a full fleshed out story. Maybe it still could be…

First couple stories weren’t all that great. But the Beatitudes featuring a toad and a siren is quite clever. Best one so far.

It appears these stories are going to be quite existential. Will be interesting…

Story 1 - weird, bizarre metaphors… very unsure.