Not Quite So Stories
The traditional explanation for myth (including such works as the relatively modern Just so Stories by Rudyard Kiping) is an attempt by humans to explain and demystify the world. That's crap. We may be able to come to terms with small pieces, but existence as a whole is beyond our grasp. Life is...
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The traditional explanation for myth (including such works as the relatively modern Just so Stories by Rudyard Kiping) is an attempt by humans to explain and demystify the world. That's crap. We may be able to come to terms with small pieces, but existence as a whole is beyond our grasp. Life is absurd, ultimately beyond our comprehension. The best we can do is to proceed on with our lives in the face of that. The stories in this collection proceed from this idea, examining how the different characters manage (and/or fail) to do this.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781942856030 (1942856032)
Publish date: 2016-03-01
Publisher: Literary Wanderlust
Pages no: 166
Edition language: English
Not Quite So Stories offers a variety of speculative fiction short stories that takes everyday events and turns them on their head. Most of these stories will make you wonder and will definitely leave questions unanswered. Some stories made me laugh and some left me in deep thought. Like all short s...