Review: An Amateur Written Short Story Set Amongst the World of an Old Lady's Pets
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2012
I think it's great the regular people who have stories to tell can get their stuff published through the invention of Kindle books.  From the cover art of a photo of someone's cat with text that you can't clearly read against the background, probably done in a basic art piece of software like Paint or something, you've got no doubt going in that Mouse is Missing is someone's homemade short story and there's not going to be editors or anyone like this involved.  I think this is a good thing as it allows non professional writers to tell the tale the way they want to.  Sometimes typos and confusing sentences can creep in with no editor involved but with Mouse is Missing the author or someone she had proof read it has done a good job, I didn't notice any spelling mistakes.  The author (I'm guessing an older lady just by the way this is written) has also given her other pets their five minutes of fame by including little photos of them at various stages of the story. That's basically what the tale is, one of her pets (a young cat called Bon Bon) has lost its toy mouse. It asks the other animals in the house, they either don't care, don't talk to cats, or don't know. However one pet accuses the cats who live outside in the barn of the crime, since you know their kind can't be trusted.  If Bon Bon wants his toy back, which he really does, he's going to have to go outside for the first time in his life and confront them.It's not so much a junior fiction short story that kids would read themselves but more a tale a grandparent would read to a grandchild sitting beside them in a big comfy chair or something.  It's one of those instead of having human child characters we'll use animals moralistic teaching through a story read, with the cat acting a little bit human childlike at times.  In this case the moral not to judge others by their kind, where they live even if other people are saying things negative about them and telling you not to talk or be friends with them.You can tell when reading this by the quality of the writing that it is a non professionally written short story. However the basic plot is fairly good one. I think with a bit of polishing, and an editor involved, this could appear together with other various authors' short stories, as a collection in a normal book that you find on physical bookshelves.