![]() ![]() I found it took a few stories for my brain to adapt to the way I was being given information – The Exploding Boy was funny, but there’s more than a sharp one liner to the stories, the deeper you look the more you see. It is for the reader to find points of connection and the writer gives them the freedom to interpret. Everyone will have a different response to the work, but the quality writing shines through. ![]() Some stories make you see life in a different way, some of them have you going ‘yes, that’s exactly what I think’ and as many make you laugh out loud as have you reflecting deeply. The uncompromising way Parker does his job and challenges you as reader to do yours, really appeals to me. Here are 42 ‘Tiny Tales’ that may not give you all the answers but together they may make up the answer! Or maybe, the number of stories is significant – didn’t the late great Douglas Adams reveal that the answer to the universe was 42. Which seems to be Borgesian, surreal at times, but contemporary in the extreme. I think Nick is telling it as he sees it and inviting us to share his perspective. However, I will tell it as I see it, because, above all, this is the message I got from the forty two stories which make up the volume. ![]() Nick Parker is a wordsmith (by day and by night) which makes me a bit nervous in the task of reviewing his work. ![]()
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