They can be bizarrely funny, as in Rock, Paper, Scissors – betrayal comes to light in a hair salon, and is punished, with scissors. These stories all, in some way, reflect the human condition. Having now read Coffee House Lies, I can report that she is, very. After reading it, I wanted to see whether she was any good herself. She’s written a guidebook called Writing Flash Fiction that contains some excellent advice on writing in general. Carly Berg must be one its best exponents. Verdict : Thou shalt not skip reading this!įlash fiction – short, concise stories as little as one page, and rarely more than four or five – is a form that has become newly popular with digital publishing. Yes, it is so strikingly vivid a book in terms of character description. Some body is obsessed with their spouse, someone with a color and someone who is looking for unhappiness amongst all the joys of the world - right in that brew of people. You can read this while waiting for the boarding pass on an airport and look around for characters that match the description in the book. Funny, weird, out-of-the-box, fearlessly honest - I am running out of adjectives in my pipeline.
Nope, you read what she wrote on the first instance. I bet you she is not the one to use backspace and crisscross some lines in a proofreading session. Only some people are branded with the tag of patients and while the others continue to be called Freaks that changed the society.Ĭarly Berg has that sense of letting her pen do the talking freely. Well, we all are cases of OCD with varied interests. One story was a case of OCD with the color Pink. I savoured seeing the world through the eyes of different people. The wavelength fluctuations of Carly's Wanderlusted mind is so colossal that she ends up writing this towering stories in such short pages. Very sharp and quirky, humorous and sarcastic, these stories will depend upon the taste of the readers.ĭifferent IQ folks will comprehend differently. They range from being bizarre to that of a normal routine human mind to that of a remarkable streak of literature. I've read dozens of short story anthologies this year.Īnd by far this is the most different one!
The stories are strange, not normal and extraordinary.
Carly Berg is one queer talent in the literature arena.Ĭoffee House Lies is a compilation of 100 bursts of imaginations across the skies of the minds.
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