Short Short Stories Dave Eggers

Fine collection of extremely short stories by Dave Eggers, whose recent writings become ever more political.
Highlight in the collection is Sleep to Dreamier Sleep Be Wed which is the story of the group of people called the Americans, and the very vivid nightmare they live in. “The most fiendish player in this nightmare was the vice-president, whose name cannot be uttered here for fear of upsetting children and plants and clouds. Suffice it to say that he was more evil than the designers of Happy Meals or the makers of smokeless tobacco, and the Americans dreamt dreams of him, constantly and without end.” Half of the American sleepers, those who wanted to awaken from the nightmare, were trying like mad to awaken the sleepers, and thus waken the collective body of the Americans from its state of near-coma. Eggers concludes, “They kicked and screamed to no avail. They rang bells and threw cold water on the bed. But in the end, do you know what did it? What woke up the willing sleepers and allowed the nation to rise from this red-black slumber? Neither do I. This story needs a good ending.
Please send help.”