Review: This short story has it all
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2013
This was one of my first e-book reads, and I'm glad I started with this one. This short story reminds me a great deal of 'The Monkey's Paw', or one of those '3 wishes' type stories where you can never quite get the wording on your wishes. The idea of the cosmos granting your every desire, is pretty far fetched, but William Meikle is able to use that idea to make the story work. He is able to keep you interested in characters that, I find, very hard to like, and he keeps you on the edge of your seat in a story where the premise is a bit extreme. This is an interesting horror story, steeped in cosmic mythology, with an interesting philosophical, moral angle. How often can you get all that wrapped up in an edge of your seat short story?