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Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
5.0
Blown away by this collection from Tremblay. As a tried and true lover of flash fiction, short stories, essay compilations, etc. I was excited to find that my newest favorite author put this out a few years ago. Excited once more to find that some of the stories in “Growing Things” harken back to my favorite novels of his.
It’s as if Tremblay himself is walking us, hand in hand and room by room, to each separate story and to each different narrator. “Growing Things” is carefully arranged to build from the visceral first few stories, into an elaborate, self aware, crescendo with “Notes from Dog Walkers,” ending precisely with “The Thirteenth Temple.”
Each story props themselves up as a unique part of this balance. Wouldn’t take or leave any of them. To rile up the spectrum of emotions from smaller fiction pieces is work in itself and Tremblay punched in and out of this shift with ease and skill.
5/5 all around.
It’s as if Tremblay himself is walking us, hand in hand and room by room, to each separate story and to each different narrator. “Growing Things” is carefully arranged to build from the visceral first few stories, into an elaborate, self aware, crescendo with “Notes from Dog Walkers,” ending precisely with “The Thirteenth Temple.”
Each story props themselves up as a unique part of this balance. Wouldn’t take or leave any of them. To rile up the spectrum of emotions from smaller fiction pieces is work in itself and Tremblay punched in and out of this shift with ease and skill.
5/5 all around.