Ten Tiny Tales is a collection of short stories that vary
from the light-hearted ones to those that pull your heartstrings. The tales are
both about ordinary people with their ordinary problems and the more fugitive
and hardcore ones. I’d say I prefer the first.
Sometimes I see the ending coming, but on others it makes me
raise my eyebrows. My favourite tale is Save the Cat because of the mundane
situations that are realistically relatable in real life, both in the problems
and the frustrating side characters. Maybe that is also the reason that it’s
this tale that still lingers after I have moved on.
Other less memorable ones are It Ends With a Tear and The
Quotidian Struggle, in which I had to do a double-take to make sure I didn’t
understand the stories wrong. There are other stories with common endings, but
it’s enjoyable to get there with creative ideas like Mickey Mouse ones and That
Is Not Funny. Bring on all the gross cards!
The tales are certainly worth reading, there are layers of
meanings and relatable human struggles. I can also relate to the many Pop
references.
4 out of 5 stars
