Stories (plus the odd extract from novels and autobiographies) from the Warwick MA in Writing.
Several quirky pieces. In "Fishing" the comparison of angling with looking for love is made explicit - sad, lonely men comparing experiences. In "The Scene of the Crime" the main PoV is from a spider. The woman's enduring complaints about the man's attitude to the spider has to be taken figuratively. At the end the man and the fly are paralleled.
In "Gilly is a victim" a maverick doctor tries to remove a man's mysterious extra gland than has been the cause of his life-long bad luck.
"Smile" is tame. I struggled to finish "The Girl in the Box" - too strange. I skipped over a lot of "Carlton International". I didn't understand why the woman made her decision in "skin". I didn't understand what was meant by "ineffable" in "Divine Feast" - "just as the pictures began to take shape they assumed an ineffable sense of wrongness - the people's limbs were grotesquely long or their faces contorted, the landscapes overstated or hellish." I liked "Tuesdays".
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