In the collection of stories in `The Girl Who Married A Fly', put together by Michael Hyde, there are a lot of stories that revolve around a common theme. Two of these stories are `The girl who married a fly' and `The survivor'. Of course as any other stories, they contain more than one common theme; some of these include home, survival, bullying, loneliness and being different. But the ones which seem to stand out the most are family and tolerance.

In `The girl who married a fly', written by Chris Wheat, the first thing the reader is introduced to is family life. When Madison Cotton, "who wasn't unusual in any way" (pg 5), finds a new fly boyfriend, all the family members go completely ballistic over it. Especially her Nan, who "was pretty insecticidal" (pg 9), and didn't get used to the idea of Oliver, (the fly), to living...