Surface stuff: It's formatted well and there are no typos that I found. I liked that the title for each story had a different font in a gray scale to differentiate the stories. These are, as the title says, short shorts. There is one science fiction story. The others are sketches, such as scenes of mainly consisting of domestic dialog.



The stories sometimes end in a revelation of like "Oh, that's what they were talking about." It really didn't work for me. I didn't find anything that would rise above reading assignments for a student writing class. Nothing particularly damning in that, it's just that there is nothing I found original or interesting in the writing or the situations. If I have a bias--and I feel the short/short format dictates this--these are situations, not stories. I respect anyone who's writing but these are the sorts of writings that I feel most writers get out of their system early on. There was nothing that pulled me in and I felt it a chore to read through. I also think that there's what's imagined--such as the physical environment in the science fiction story--and how it's presented. Do the descriptions pull you in or are they ordinary sentences attempting to describe the extra-ordinary?



Writing and putting it together in the format is special in considering the pool of humanity, it just isn't special considering the choices one has for reading material. Sorry, can't recommend.