Review: Brave!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2011
Conductors by Joshua Scribner manages in a just a few pages to transport the reader to a strange and different place.  For me this is the real test between good fiction and pieces that are grammatically and structurally perfect, but take you nowhere.  I have always loved short stories, but over the years have stopped reading them as good stories became what was good to sell magazines and the two are not the same thing.  This story is not a commercial piece, it is a real short story and wonderfully brave, spooky and curious, all at the same time.  Alex Garland's, The Beach had a lush background and though this story's setting is stark, it manages to capture the same ominous feel.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and hope more authors will be inspired to publish stand alone short stories now that the Kindle has created a place for them.