Happy Endings - Josephine Surer

I enjoyed this story a lot because I didn't really see it as a story but more of a list of different outcomes. We never got any type of characterization of the characters, instead we got their reactions to different types of situations. The sentences were all very short which added a lot to the instruction manual feeling. I also thought this technique made the story kind of depressing; the quick sum up of the reactions of characters we don't know anything about made their lives sound very short and only based on those events. What added to this dryness was also the fact that there is no dialogue or physical reactions of the characters. The reader sees the characters more as fictional objects and less of possible people.