Bitter Waters

"Bitter Waters" is a collection of short stories with the common theme of water, from the ocean to islands to the human body, which is 60% water. The author also intended it for his gay male readers. All the stories deal in some way with relationships between men, and all have some speculative fiction component. I liked the book, and the stories are really well constructed. But this is another case where the prose is so grand it gets in the way of the story telling. I often got so distracted by the long runs of descriptions and similes that I lost the gist of the story. I like good prose, but sometimes it can be too much. In several of the stories, this was the case.

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