Genre: Collection
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
Publisher: Kindle
Reviewed by: Veinglory
Bouffon Stories
is a collection of tales Mekes wrote in response to challenges. These were generally in the form of a list of items or events that must appear in the story. Mekes’ readers obviously enjoy giving him a difficult
task. Such as to write a tale involves walruses, and greed, and not
using the letter P.
The
responses to the challenges are inventive, quirky and interesting.
However they generally lack the element of plot (set up and resolution)
that makes a really good short story.
My favorite was Bronies which
uses a silly phenomenon to make a serious point. The Last Collector has a
very interesting premise, but it proved to come largely from the
prompt. Others were entertaining enough but I feel like they squandered
the potential of unusual elements such as “a safe with a lock that has
sixteen unmarked buttons”.
Even with my reservation this is a fun collection and none of the stories is long enough to really wear out its welcome, so I think it is a pretty fair deal at 99c.
No comments:
Post a Comment