Review: A 20 Minute Read, Where You Never Really Know What's Going On, But That's Why it Works
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2012
It won't take you long to get through this nice little 20 minute or so in length short story. As you're reading Unimagined, you never quite know exactly what is going on here.  The mother is clearly not a fit to be parent, but is someone actually stalking her/trying to harm her, or is she just extremely paranoid, possibly even mentally ill?  The daughter also, well according to the mother's mind at least, is talking to someone who is not there, but does this imaginary or invisible friend really exist?  They live in a house with video monitors, alarms and other security devices paid for by her ex-husband to protect her from exactly what we don't know.  Was that what, ever actually real, or just something to keep the peace by the ex-husband? He isn't exactly a pillar of the community either in that he is happy to leave his five year old daughter with either an unfit mother who ties her to shopping trolleys and the like, or in real danger if there is actually something to protect them from.That's what makes this psychological thriller work, you never know what is going on, once events play out as well you're still thinking about them wondering if you've maybe got to read between the lines as well.  I will definitely check out other books by this author.