Review: Totally bizarre and unfinished stories
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2012
Short stories are tough. You have a limited amount of words and space to not only develop your characters, but also the storyline. I've seen some authors do amazing things with short stories... if only this was one of those times.I went in thinking "Oh good! Creepy stories for October!" and left with "Umm... what the heck did I just read and how can I get that 15 minutes of my life back?". Here's the thing... the premise of the stories are awesome. Both are "thinking" stories. The writing is even really really great.The problem is the ending and development of how we get there. In both cases I was left with a "oh yeah, well so what" thought. The second story I think actually had some real promise to be a short story and I kept waiting for the author to get there, but it just never really developed, it just fizzled out.The first story was a little too wordy yet didn't have enough information, so we were left with a "so what" ending.Honestly, I think if the author were to take these ideas (especially the second one), he'd have himself a really nice novella out of each one. As they are now, "meh".Recommended to people who like stories without endings ;)Note: I received a free review copy from the author.