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A review by exurbanis
The Dark and Other Love Stories by Deborah Willis
5.0
4.5 stars
THE DARK and Other Love Stories by Deborah Willis (Fiction, Canadian, Short Stories)
What an incredible range of characters and POVs! - and not a romance in the bunch ;-)
Just some:
THE DARK about two girls at summer camp who dare each other to go out in the dark when everyone is asleep.
THE GIRLFRIEND ON MARS- weed grower & dealer & his live-in. She decides to sign up for a reality show on which the winning couple mans the first flight to Mars. He narrates what he sees on the show but all he says is not accurate.
(FORGET THE TITLE) A middle-aged American man visits the site of his late grandmother’s apartment in St. Petersburg and, not wanting to go alone, he hires a prostitute to go with him.
LAST ONE TO LEAVE is a very touching story of two survivors of different events who find each other but are eventually parted by death.
I liked best - TODD about a recovered addict just starting out in a new life, wanting his 10-year-old daughter to live with him, and in the meantime living with Todd, a crow that finds its way into the apartment through an open window.
FLIGHT: a teenaged girl runs away from her home in Victoria and hits the streets of Vancouver. She meets Eddie – that saves her from prostitution and drugs. She eventually returns home & carries on with her life. Years later, on the Sky Train, Eddie recognizes her and she denies knowing him.
THE ARK: Leanna and Toby as kids hate each other. We follow them from age six to adulthood in just a few pages.
THE HOLE and THE NAP touch on the fantastical.
THE DARK and Other Love Stories by Deborah Willis (Fiction, Canadian, Short Stories)
What an incredible range of characters and POVs! - and not a romance in the bunch ;-)
Just some:
THE DARK about two girls at summer camp who dare each other to go out in the dark when everyone is asleep.
THE GIRLFRIEND ON MARS- weed grower & dealer & his live-in. She decides to sign up for a reality show on which the winning couple mans the first flight to Mars. He narrates what he sees on the show but all he says is not accurate.
(FORGET THE TITLE) A middle-aged American man visits the site of his late grandmother’s apartment in St. Petersburg and, not wanting to go alone, he hires a prostitute to go with him.
LAST ONE TO LEAVE is a very touching story of two survivors of different events who find each other but are eventually parted by death.
I liked best - TODD about a recovered addict just starting out in a new life, wanting his 10-year-old daughter to live with him, and in the meantime living with Todd, a crow that finds its way into the apartment through an open window.
FLIGHT: a teenaged girl runs away from her home in Victoria and hits the streets of Vancouver. She meets Eddie – that saves her from prostitution and drugs. She eventually returns home & carries on with her life. Years later, on the Sky Train, Eddie recognizes her and she denies knowing him.
THE ARK: Leanna and Toby as kids hate each other. We follow them from age six to adulthood in just a few pages.
THE HOLE and THE NAP touch on the fantastical.