Review: A Mellow Little Pleasure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2012
This is a short story. That means no big world building, no convoluted plot, no great multi-generational saga. Just a mellow little study of a guy and his encounter with a girl who jostles him, however briefly, out of his airless little world.It struck me as a nice, tidy little study. A character is created and sketched in. He interacts with a few other well imagined characters. Some things happen and he thinks about them. Then he moves on. In a few pages we have a world, a guy, a situation, and a bit of sad, mellow life that we didn't have before we read the story. The tone is calm, and everyone is just a bit flat, just a bit deflated. Like the main character, the whole story is just a bit quiet and tentative. That's fine by me.And it's free, which the best thing ever.