"You're trying to do too much with this collection," a friend told him. "I can't tell if you're writing jokes or poems or stories. This book is all over the place "
He nodded. Maybe it was. But then there are so many different aspects to a person's personality, he figured.
Maybe an eclectic collection of stories wasn't such a bad thing after all.
At least he hoped so.
***Ran Walker's twentieth book pulls together a wide variety of microfiction...