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Title: Flip-flop from a flop.
Review: What makes a good short story collection? They are hard to come by because the author is asking his or her reader to accompany them on not one but numerous tales. In some ways a short story collection can be more difficult than a novel, because one bad story might spoil the dozen. Such is not the case with Skin: Stories by literary novelist turned mystery writer, C.E. Poverman. These stories do not inspire, they do not entice, and they do not give any reason to continue on from page one to page two. The characters are caricatures, and the plots irrelevent.
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