Review: Decent story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2011
I recently downloaded several of Joshua Scribner's short stories, and this is the one that I was most looking forward to reading.  It started out very well, but unfortunately by the end, I was a bit confused by the direction that the plot took.The basic story is that in a maternity ward, the college student working there starts to see a mysterious little girl staring at the babies, and it scares this college student.  I can't say much more without giving the rest of the story away, but I will say that the premise was extremely intriguing.  The bad news is that by the end of the book, the story had kind of taken a turn for the worse, and the mood had strangely changed from horror to happiness.Although this was such a short story, Mr. Scribner did a very good job at developing the main character and introducing some other characters.  There wasn't a large amount of background information given, but what was there was very well told.  As for the scare factor of the book, it had potential to be really creepy, but by the end of the book, nothing was really spooky anymore.Overall, it's a decent read that takes 10 minutes or less, and I wouldn't necessarily not recommend reading it.  The ending is quite strange and confusing, and that just took away from the entire story for me, but others may like it more than I did.  I do look forward to reading Mr. Scribner's other works, because he does seem to be a very good writer.  If you were interested at all by the description of the story, go ahead and give this story a try; however, I will more than likely not be reading this short story again because it just ultimately left me underwhelmed.