Review: Everything's gone 19
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
If it weren't for the disclaimer of this being based on a true story, I would have thought Aaron Patterson was influenced on King's The Dark Tower series, which has 19 as a common thread throughout. As it is, it contains elements of a medical thriller with some ambiguity of a supernatural mystery. A very quick read (ending at 48% with the rest being sneak previews for 3 of Patterson's other books, Sweet Dreams, Breaking Steele, and Airel), this showed Aaron has a good mind for dense storytelling, can tell a full-length novel of a creepy story in relatively few sentences (there's only been a few stories I've read that have such and done it effectively), so I never felt gypped out of a good story with loose endings, nor did the story itself feel rushed, but appropriately-paced. While not as dark as an early King novel, it does prove to be eerie, and with a couple unexpected twists, this goes to show short stories still have merit when one's not trying too hard to expand with unnecessary research.Great job on a creepy short!