I enjoyed reading this collection of 22 stories from the 1995 Ian St James Awards competition, but soon into the anthology I was struck more by the stories' similarities than their differences. 2/3s of them are in the first person, only 2 of them are in any way fantastical, and all have a strong, single-stranded narrative drive. Couples in a critical moment of their relationship are the most common characters, the situation being described for a page or so before the narrative really kicks in, flashbacks providing background information. For variety of narrative structure, the TV programmes "Frasier" and even "Startrek - TNG" offer more.
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