Review: "  Excellent Spin on a Legend  "
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2013
I first came across this author during the summer when, Amazon recommended it, because of the genre I mainly read.  The short story was "House Guest" and it was excellent. What I like about this author is his unique style of telling his story completely through the narrator. This author's short story is not hard core, splatter gore.  It is thought provoking, become creepy, and very twisted in the end.Meet, Marissa who has never felt any parental bonding, or love as a child. She spends her life shuffled from one foster home to the next. She is finally taken in by " The Church of the Weeping Mary ", but what she will find there is not a church at all.  Good Shepherd and Sister Wingright, believe in the teachings of the " True Mother of Earth ",  Lilith. ( Well, as soon as I heard that name alarm bells went off in my head.)For readers that don't know: there is an old " Legend of Lilith ", the true first wife of Adam, that was created by the same earth from God, not from Adam's rib, like Eve.  Lilith, is strong willed and believes she should be equal to Adam.  For this she is cursed by God, and cast out of the Garden of Eden forever and told all her born children will be forever damned, unless she changes her mind and becomes obedient to Adam.  Thus, she refuses, and God creates Eve from Adam's rib, so she is really not a separate entity.  From here, we all know where Eve eventually leads us...................Will Marissa, through these sick, creepy believers, eventually find a true mother that actually loves her in the shocking ending?  Well, you need to read it to find out, and you won't be disappointed.......................It was an excellent, thought provoking short story, but you need to know the legend of Lilith, to understand the full impact of the story.(Now, this story is really 4.5 stars, because I agree with the other reviewer, there was some strange typo issue between the Letter I, and the Number 1, throughout the story, that caused me to pause for a few seconds.  It surprised me, because in his other short's, there are no edit problems.)