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Very rarely do I give a collection of short stories a 5. I couldn’t put this down, I loved every story, they all have something, and while they’re not all completely unique, Alan Brennert has a very peculiar style of writing that just mesmerises me from the beginning. I can’t place my finger in what it is exactly, but I just love how he tells stories. All of the ones in this book are mostly stories of people on the edge of society whether because they are mythological creatures, social pariahs, or just have diseases that isolate them. Each story is unique and within different genres, but the feeling of loneliness, isolation, and ultimately finding their place or being at peace with themselves is the same in all, and no matter what the story was about, they all got to me. I think the most memorable ones are the one about the deaf musician and the girl he finds and falls in love with, the one about tue Aztec priest and the thief (it happens in two timelines), the extremely short Superman story, and the last, which also gives name to the book, and it’s about a scientist and unexplained phenomena happening on his lab. Most are tales of love for another knowing no bounds, while others are of loving yourself. I just loved the feeling it left me with.
