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

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…

Still nothing too special in this short story collection.

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.