“At birth, they’d been charged by God with the responsibility of growing into total fuckups. It also had one of my favorite quotes from the collection: It takes place in a type of futuristic jail in which inmates are subjected to weird experiments with what seems to be IV-like drugs that make them feel different emotions. The story spends a lot of time contrasting the mother from the puppy-owning family and the mother from the puppy-buying family and both of their messed-up perceptions of loveĤ) “Escape from Spiderhead” – 5/5 – as a sci-fi fan I really enjoyed this one though it was on the more out-there side of the collection. The main theme seemed to be the contrast between a rich woman who is planning to buy a puppy for her kids and the “white trash” family from whom she is buying the puppy. I definitely related to him as I absolutely can’t handle crisis situations and one of my worst fears is witnessing something horrible about to happen and being the person responsible for *doing something* about itĢ) “Sticks” – 3/5 – this was the shortest story but still I don’t believe I devoted enough time to it, but in brief, it was sad and vaguely crypticģ) “Puppy” – 4/5 – this one was pretty disturbing too. It follows two characters, a girl, and a boy who witnesses her abduction and has to make a split-second decision.

At first I had to take time to get used to the writing style and figure out what was going on. Here goes nothing, I guess:ġ) “Victory Lap” – 4/5 – this story caught me off guard with the sudden veer into, well, pretty dark territory. Since Tenth of December is a short story collection, I’ll break up this review into a sort of set of mini-reviews, one for each story in the collection. These stories take on the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, delving into the questions of what makes us good and what makes us human.” My Thoughts Writing brilliantly and profoundly about class, sex, love, loss, work, despair, and war, Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary experience.

The tenth of december short story