It's official, Keith needs very few words to paint the sum of someone's character in vivid color. Each of these 15 stories tells a tale of someone that feels familiar. I love how immersive his writing is, even in short stories, where you're only with the characters for a few thousand words. You can't help but understand their deepest emotions.

Honorable Mentions:

The Lesser Horsemen - This tales of the other 3 horseman is one I didn't know I needed about the fab 4. We all know that death his here to stay, but what happens with the other 3 are no longer working out? This hilarious take on how God rehabilitates them was fitting for the pandemic we're currently living in. Guess pestilence received a bit of contract work.

Winter, Spring, Whatever Happens After That - This one got me right in the feels. The way Becky feels about school, work, and her alcoholic father, so heartbreaking. The description in this was does so much for the emotional state of the characters, and the lives they lead.

Plus Brad Benske and the Hand of Light, and Dunsmuir - sooo many feels in such a short amount of words.

You'll love this collection of stories if you enjoy works of fiction that don't have an explicit plot, and are more character driven. If you like reading about topics that toe the line of magic and realism, and are tied together with deep emotions pick up this book! ( )

Interesting Read!!! But a really good Read!! ( )

Not bad, rather better than the novel I read and stalled several times on. The anthology format works here, and I liked the way some stories you are left to work out what the end should be (although sometimes it's a bit annoying - as though they're unfinished). What I did find annoying was the bunch of losers that inhabit all the stories; come on, Mr Rosson, give us some stories where people are happy with their lot and live a fulfilling life! It brings the losers into relief. Recommended, but be warned there's too many losers to make a satisfying read.

A Carver for a post-normative world

To say that I loved this book is an understatement. I couldn’t cram it into my greedy eyeholes fast enough; yet, at the same time I didn’t want it to end.

Rosson’s three novels have all had a background of the supernatural, which is here—especially the opener featuring the (Lesser) Horsemen of the Apocalypse. What shines here, however, is his ability to convey true, brutal humanity. Damn. ( )

Mostly sad stories about people trying to cope with their lives. But it is not all agony: sometimes people succeed, or, if not, they get a glimmer of hope.
Sometimes the stories are distopian sf, like "Yes, we are duly concerned with calamitous events". I loved that story. So completely out of order, so completely over the top. I started reading the story when I was at the office and I was so glad I was alone.
I liked reading the stories. I had to look up a lot of words, as English is not my mother tongue. ( )