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So This Is How I Go
Different as we all are — in our thoughts and our actions and the lives we lead and the goals we pursue — we’re all tied together by death. But even that consistency is inconsistent; a different experience for each person who faces it.
This concise collection focuses on death and the experience of people facing it. Each story features different characters, scenarios, and styles, but all are tied together by their inevitable end.
This collection contains the following stories:
Great Party
Cough Drop
13F
Paperwork
Asset
Woods
Ranch
1 HP
This concise collection focuses on death and the experience of people facing it. Each story features different characters, scenarios, and styles, but all are tied together by their inevitable end.
This collection contains the following stories:
Great Party
Cough Drop
13F
Paperwork
Asset
Woods
Ranch
1 HP
- GenresFiction
44 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 23, 2013
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February 17, 2020
After staying up until 5am this morning playing ARK: Survival Evolved, naturally, I overslept. But when I woke, I woke to a number of exciting phone notifications. According to my Instagram feed, Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle was moving to the Philippines for a few months. What?! I jumped out of bed I was so excited. You see, I had visited family there a year and a half ago with my mom. After nearly 20 years away from the island country, I got to fall in love with it all over again. And now Colin Wright would get to experience that magic.
Coincidentally, I just finished reading a collection of short stories written by Colin titled So This Is How I Go. So, without further ado, I’m excited to say that Wright’s short story collection will be my very first review.
I’m not saying I have some unhealthy fixation with death, but I do tend to linger on the subject and ponder its implications. The title is what compelled me to purchase this book.
The collection is comprised of eight short stories, each averaging about six pages in length. I’m a slow reader in that I like to ruminate on the ideas being presented to me, so I spent two consecutive nights reading the collection. I personally don’t appreciate spoilers so I won’t disclose too much here.
As I read each story, I was overcome by a sense of nostalgia. I grew up reading Stephen King and Goosebumps, and this collection was very reminiscent of those styles of stories. Wright’s writing is mature in nature, sometimes depicting graphic conflicts and language, but there’s always an underlying moral lesson to uncover.
As I read each short, I found myself dreaming up the backstories of each main character and my knack for empathy got me emotionally vested in them. Each story presented a starkly different death from the last, each death abrupt and final with the end scenes hanging resolutely in the air.
The first sentence of every story grabbed my attention and the point of view varied from third-, second-, and first-person with snappy dialogue and story pacing.
I typically read novels, but this collection of shorts was a solid change of tempo to my usual appetite. And I liked it.
See my original review on Story Darling.
Coincidentally, I just finished reading a collection of short stories written by Colin titled So This Is How I Go. So, without further ado, I’m excited to say that Wright’s short story collection will be my very first review.
I’m not saying I have some unhealthy fixation with death, but I do tend to linger on the subject and ponder its implications. The title is what compelled me to purchase this book.
The collection is comprised of eight short stories, each averaging about six pages in length. I’m a slow reader in that I like to ruminate on the ideas being presented to me, so I spent two consecutive nights reading the collection. I personally don’t appreciate spoilers so I won’t disclose too much here.
As I read each story, I was overcome by a sense of nostalgia. I grew up reading Stephen King and Goosebumps, and this collection was very reminiscent of those styles of stories. Wright’s writing is mature in nature, sometimes depicting graphic conflicts and language, but there’s always an underlying moral lesson to uncover.
As I read each short, I found myself dreaming up the backstories of each main character and my knack for empathy got me emotionally vested in them. Each story presented a starkly different death from the last, each death abrupt and final with the end scenes hanging resolutely in the air.
The first sentence of every story grabbed my attention and the point of view varied from third-, second-, and first-person with snappy dialogue and story pacing.
I typically read novels, but this collection of shorts was a solid change of tempo to my usual appetite. And I liked it.
See my original review on Story Darling.
May 31, 2025
"For the living: may we all enjoy that status conciously and fully."
December 30, 2016
Without doubt my favorite collection of short stories by Colin Wright.
Reading about death. Not anything that most people either look forward to or can adequately prepare for. And not knowing how Colin will build on this theme makes the discovery of his work that much more delightful.
This is not a set of horror or crime stories. Just stories about death - expected and unexpected - in 10 pages or fewer per story.
Reading about death. Not anything that most people either look forward to or can adequately prepare for. And not knowing how Colin will build on this theme makes the discovery of his work that much more delightful.
This is not a set of horror or crime stories. Just stories about death - expected and unexpected - in 10 pages or fewer per story.
January 24, 2014
I really enjoyed this book. It had a lot of twists and turns that you wouldn't expect.
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