Review: Scribner delights his readers, offers them something new, and causes them to think
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 13, 2011
Joshua Scribner not only offers good unusual stories, but he also causes his readers to think. In this tale, a paranoid woman has a precocious five year old daughter. She fears for her own and her daughter's life. She ties her to a cart when she goes shopping to protect her. She teaches her at home to avoid having her encounter dangers at school. She has her strapped to a leash when she walks with her. Her daughter has an imaginary male friend who gives her good advice, who sometimes sees things neither she nor her mother saw. She was married, but her husband left her and married another woman, yet he set up a very expensive security system for her. One day, she begins to see a man who smiles at her and follows her.Readers will enjoy finding out what is going on and who is the man. They may want to think about what is happening to her and her daughter and why? More significantly, they may ask themselves, should I take this story literally? Did what she sees actually happen? If not, what happened?