A small book of short short stories, most clocking in at around 200 words. The style is crisp, contemporary, apparently transparent yet also oblique - slices of life shot through with undercurrents and haunted (text as much as subtext) by captivity in various forms, and also by death. Some are on the insubstantial side - 'overdetermined' seems an odd descriptions for pieces so brief, but in a few cases, for mine, there isn't enough there to support the weightiness that seems to be intended. But overall a very pleasing collection, filled with hooks to snag the attention, by turns vivid, cryptic, poignant - sometimes all three at once - and achieving a cumulative effect rather like that which arises while reading a collection of poetry; two that I particularly liked were the Van Gogh one near the start and the vignette between a girl and her boyfriend's brother where they talk about past lives.
