"Link Arms with Toads!" is a collection of short fiction in what Hughes has called the 'Romanti-Cynical' genre. In the words, again, of Michael Moorcock, Rhys Hughes is drunk on language and wild imagery,A" but sober on the essentials of thoughtA". "Link Arms with Toads!" is inventive, whimsical and slyly philosophical. Inverting genre tropes, the collection stands outside genre with the likes of Italo Calvino and Raymond Queneau. This collection is perhaps the best available introduction to Hughes' work. It contains also the tale 'Discrepancy', the story that will serve to tie up the loose ends of the 1,000 items of linked fiction that Hughes has vowed to write in his lifetime.