Co-dependent

Fifty short stories by two authors, each beginning with the last sentence of the previous story... It's utterly and completely random, weird, creative, and imaginative. I never knew what was coming with each story, and it was such fun diving into each one and wondering what they came up with next.


The stories are mainly either sci-fi or horror and show a great variety of things, alien parasites, robots and androids, a strange creature that eats child predators, there's even a vampire story that begins with “I really hope these spinach smoothies will one day kill me.” Lots of sci-fi stories, with strange tech and on different planets .. the world building the authors pulled off in each new short story was amazing.

There's also plenty of gore, bad morals, and loads of uncomfortable sex stuff .. necrophilia anyone? Hope not... These two go all-in with each story and that they had something new each time was great. Fifty different ideas are a lot... but they pulled it off. Each story manages to tell something new and interesting and while of course some you'll either shrug at or maybe just not get like in any collection, the whole of this is just wonderful. This was a great idea and a great collection.

I've read quite a few short story collections now, and I've found this one to be original and refreshing. I valued the weird creativity running throughout this and couldn't get enough. If this really was an experiment between the authors, it's one they should be proud of. In the spirit of this collection, I'd like you to start your next “story” with the last sentence of this review. I obtained a copy of this collection, and I sat down to read it.