Review: A Good Short Story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2012
I really enjoyed the 15-20 minutes I spent reading this. As the tale went on it kept slowly releasing enough information to make you not only keep reading but eagerly anticipating what ultimately the whole point of the story is.  I like how we never really know why exactly the old lady, Maude Barrow wanted to be a nanny.  We know she is a fraud and has no experience or any education in the profession.  Did she intend to rob the place? Did she just want a better place to live? As we're reading we have no idea other than to know she's not really a nice person and certainly doesn't respect her employers or the kids.  I found that added to the mystery of what exactly is this family she works for all about?  When Maude signs on she signs a contract that has a number of bizarre clauses, particularly don't feed the children.  So that has you questioning what exactly is going on here.  Are they Gremlins?  Are they a Stepford Wives ending type family?  Maybe the ending was a little anticlimactic, but I enjoyed the journey there so much that it didn't lessen the feeling of, wow that was a great story when I finished.  A Good Nanny is definitely a short story I'll pass onto others to read, and I look forward to reading other stories by this author.