I picked up a random book at a flea market a few months ago that I’m just getting around to reading now. I didn’t think it’d be that great, the length seemed a bit daunting, and it felt like I was going to have to become invested in another long-term saga that spanned generations and might not ever be finished.
But it’s not.
It’s a bunch of short stories with a loose thread pulled between each one. It’s an insanely clever idea; you can see that you are in a world being created, but so many stories are interwoven between them.
You read 20 – 40 pages, and you are onto the next adventure.
But the pull is that you want more from that first story.
Now I know why so many movies are based on short stories.
We might not read them as much as they used to in favour of long-established sagas and worlds, but man, they are fun to read.
