The style ranges from one end to the other in this short story collection. There is that too-literary style, the one that I associate with writing workshops and university creative writing classes, the ones that are too clever for their own good. "These canine teeth of mine... stick out like box seats at the opera" is a line from a story in this collection. Not a bad line, but compounded with a character named
Eeepie Carpetrod and it becomes a bit much.
Two of these stories don't suffer from this over style - Jaybird and Scrapbook - and they are the best in this collection. They demonstrate the author can indeed write without relying on the the rhetorical flourishes that look good in a writing workshop and but nowhere else.
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