The Trespass Collection is six short stories of different genres by some really excellent writers, from our friendly neighbourhood behemoth, Amazon’s Original Stories, released in February 2022.
- The Tiger Came to the Mountains x Silvia Moreno-Garcia: 5⭐ (10/10)
- Wildlife x Jeff VanderMeer: 2⭐ (3/10)
- The Backbone of the World x Stephen Graham Jones: 4⭐ (9/10)
- Stag x Karen Russell: 3⭐ (7/10)
- A Righteous Man x Tochi Onyebuchi: 4⭐ (8/10)
- Bloody Summer x Carmen Maria Machado: 2⭐ (4/10)
The Tiger Came to the Mountains was my favourite story: siblings become trapped in a cave, with a tiger and soldiers/revolutionaries on the loose. It’s excellently written. Wildlife was a little unsatisfying for me; I expected more to happen. But then, I’m not really a fan of VanderMeer’s fiction. The Backbone of the World is a fantastic story about a woman and prairie dogs (not your typical ones!) facing off. Stag is typically Karen Russell weird (and in this case, disturbing) fiction, about a man, a girl, and a very old tortoise at a divorce party in the desert. It was fairly universally panned on Goodreads (and I agree). Written in epistolary style, I found A Righteous Man surprisingly deep and wonderfully open to interpretation: a man undergoes a transformation when he goes on a missionary/colonisation trip. Bloody Summer is a Pied Piper-like story about really creepy kids, and justice after (TW) child sexual abuse.
So, to recap, these were my favourite stories:
The Tiger Came to the Mountains x Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Backbone of the World x Stephen Graham Jones
A Righteous Man x Tochi Onyebuchi
but you should go ahead and read/listen to all of them. All-in-all, a great collection.
Harare Review of Books 
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