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The Short Stories of Mila Strictzer, With a Preface by Tex Strozier:
The Tigress The Farm Two Soldiers Happiness in New York City Seashore of Lake Michigan The Hit Man Cat’s Eyes A Scene From the Gulf War Not Quite a Whore The Strozier Reader The Gamblers and Such Things The Stinger The Man and His Wife You Can Take It With You The Bus II Rat in a Cage I Am Your Master Mila Strictzer [42,875 words]
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
I have a writing problem, what else can I say? I have had this problem all my life and it does not seem to go away, in fact, it gets worse every day. [July 2001]
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"This writer has set it up in such a way that eighteen stories have to be reviewed in one go. So what do the stories have in common? A single strong voice of somebody feeling a lot of hurt and bitterness, for one thing; a view of the world as a dark and harsh place, peopled by damaged, vengeful, cruel, sometimes deranged male characters. His one attempt to get inside the head of a woman ("Not Quite a Whore") is the least accomplished of the stories. The best, for me, was the simple and quite short "Two Soldiers", in which two comrades on the battlefield contemplate their likely death. Strozier/Strichzer has a gift for dialogue and description, with an occasional striking turn of phrase, and writes in a conversational almost "stream of consciousness" style, usually speaking from within the mind of his central protagonist. A lot of the material seems to be autobiographical, and several times he steps into the spotlight personally and uses a story as a platform from which to put forward his theories about the writer's role. He is stronger on character and atmosphere than he is on plot, many of the stories being sketches or slices of life without very much narrative content. In his preface he rejects the concept of proof-reading (though his work is no worse on this score than many of the stories on these pages) and claims the right to do it his own way, which is fine by me. My only real quibble is with the characters themselves, I just don't like these guys, I wouldn't want to get stuck in an elevator with any of them, and I think his view of the human condition is too unremittingly bleak and ugly for my taste. " -- David Gardiner, London, England.
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