Review: A Good Way to Spend a Ten Minute Work Break
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2012
This is a very short story, it'll take you about 6 or 7 minutes to read so if you've got a ten minute break at work or something this is a great way to fill that time.  Firebug is a very simply tale, you can predict a lot of it, but still it's very enjoyable.  The basic plot revolves around an old man who had built his house a long time ago in the woods to enjoy them and the isolation.  Problem is that developers have bought the adjacent woods and they're knocking them down, with the cheaply built and designed houses encroaching closer and closer into the view from his windows everyday. The old man has noticed strange things occurring in the woods lately, such as fireflies grouping together in ways they hadn't done before.  Is the destruction of the woods altering their behaviour.  How will this affect the new houses and even the old man?Short but sweet.  I could easily see this story making it into a multiple author supernatural or horror short story collection together with bigger name authors down the track.  I'll check out other stories by this author.