This collection of short stories reads like the foggy memory of the night in our collective youth when a decision was made to go out alone looking for nothing at all and finding meaning in the things that just happened. And that's not an easy thing to do. You certainly can't write these thoughts down while you're still seeing if you can keep up with the required number of shots to prove you're a man. And often, if you've been successful in that endeavor, you won't be able to summon them afterward either.
Many of thesecharacters speak about themselves in the way that people do in bars, trying to be noticed or understood, pontificating about the very things they cannot see in their own reflections - well, I mean, we all do that, but it's in chiaroscuro when liquor is flowing. It's a difficult but important display to have the good fortune to witness while sober. Memorable characters enter, make scenes, leave us hanging and wanting more. The very polished "Free Will" stood out to me. I've taken all the players home with me - though I can't recall exactly when and they never called though they said they would. I have a feeling they're hanging with someone more fun.
There's something very interesting about peeking into slices of others' lives through the personae they have on display in watering holes. It's partly pure act people put on, and partly more intimate than many manage to allow in their deepest relationships - the booze and anonymity acting like an invisible confessional. Can you blame them? Who hasn't had a passing thought that bottles of many colors, stacked neatly in their chaos look just like a stained glass bricolage of despair, loneliness, desire, and vice in general. But just as most of us have visions of genius in our dreams and roll over, hitting the alarm snooze while letting them slip away, so do we order another round and forget about the Sacred City and it's secrets in shadows, sacrifices to egos, screaming out about others' egos and self-immolation.
I'm just glad someone was taking notes.
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