Review: Always enforce the rules
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
My father once said, in reaction to my brother speaking up about how his plan for the night when to s***, that even the best laid plain will always have a chance of screwing over, more or less. The same can easily be said with what went down with the trio of Anthony's short tale “Loosely Enforced Rules”.In this tale, three people, Dave, Sunshine, and Philly, worked together by committing home invasions in a peculiar way. They are self govern by a set of loosely enforced rules that are suppose to keep them on the ball, but when they are there to serve just as reminders, they can easily be tossed aside. This is seen when Dave tries to talk Sunshine out of a little bit of something before their home invasion takes place.This action, which needs to be read as I won't do it justice by explaining it here, is, as Dave puts it, probably the reason why the whole night just goes to s***. I like how we see just how unhinged everything is when it comes to these three before the final big reveal takes place.Anthony mixes in disturbing imagery with an interesting narrator, Dave, who seems a little too cool, but then again with their job, they have to be oddly cool in a sense. Also, another interesting part was the fact that the narrator easily explains how no matter how one is prepared, someone can easily be there with you in your home, and you'll never know. That is god damn creepy, especially when one has watched enough 6-8 minute mini horror films online where a lone occupant is stalked by a creepy creature, only to have the film stop when you see the creature's face. In this case though, it's actual people, and that can be way worse.Still, I liked the twist at the end, it felt fitting to the tale and I wouldn't have it any other way really. For a short tale Anthony was able to bring his skill and vision to it, and made it his own. If one doesn't mind the...graphic detail in some parts, I'd say go ahead and read it.