Review: A Curvball of its Own
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
The Rookie manages to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end; not an easy feat for flash fiction, so BRAVO! It will bring you back to a wonderful place in your memory--at least, it did for me. Go ahead. Download this. It's free! And good!SPOILERI had no idea this was written from the perspective of a ten-year-old. It's nicely woven into the story as the ball flies over the fence (a grand slam), and he rounds the bases, which are actually in his backyard. There is a small (minor) Baseball detail that kind of bothered me. If it were the bottom of the ninth, and the bases were loaded, the batter would not get a sign to "swing away", because it's a given. I play competitive baseball most of my life, and if the coach wanted you to swing away they either a) said nothing or b) gestured a swing with their hands and clapped and maybe added, "let's go, kid!" It's a very MINOR detail, but this is flash fiction and I'm assuming baseball fans are reading this, so it just bothered me a tiny, tiny bit. I believe Kirkus knows about Baseball, though, because the coach giving the signs scene was very accurate--the indicator, etc. This is a lot of fun!