Review: Well worth getting -- keep going for the bonus stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2012
I too was absolutely taken with "Plastic Soldiers" -- heartbreaking, harrowing, yet ultimately uplifting.If you're reading on the Kindle, however, there are many more good things beyond the six that are billed on the cover. "The Instrument of Their Desires" by Patti Abbott is superb. Compact, emotional, and surprising, it is just what the short-story form should be. It prompted me to get her "Monkey Justice" collection straight away.Nigel Bird, a recent favorite of mine, offers something that can perhaps best be described as a black-humored "Paths of Glory."I also liked the teasers for Nik Korpon's "Old Ghosts" and Eric Beetner's "Dig Two Graves." Korpon is new to me; I know Beetner from his entries in the "Fight Card Series."