Listening In and Other Stories

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This book is filled with short stories you really have to look into and analyse or you’ll lose the obscure message the author is trying to convey. Tales of characters trying to find their way through life and understanding the mysteries of what life has to offer.

Eight stories of disturbed, interesting, and a gallant of mixed emotional characters, depicted in stories of intrigue, wonder and shock. Short stories like the Bank Statement, Silent Reel, Listening In, Tattoo, Life Beneath the Piano, Collecting Faces, The Soul Mouth and Angel Fish – all drew me in to how each character absorbed their life and what it meant for them each to have lived it.

There were three stories that stuck to me. In Bank Statement, I could feel the mother at odds with herself on what she should do with her son’s wealth. In Tattoo, Tess was so obsessed with the reasoning as to why the girl got the tattoo in the first place. In Collecting Faces, at first I didn’t know the character was a prostitute and I like the way the author wrote the story through her eyes and emotions.

I have to admit that these short stories aren’t the usual work I read but I got a chance to see another point of view and a different side of literature.