Review: How Was the Phone Call Possible? Who Were All the Screaming People? Why Can't You Walk Over the Bridge? What's the Point?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2012
This is about a ten to twelve minute short story that goes nowhere and doesn't answer any of the questions that arise along the way.  The basic plot starts off with Nathan, an out of shape rich man who likes to live in solitude fleeing out the back of his fortified home.  His instincts tell him to avoid an ornamental bridge in his backyard.  While waiting for the police he receives a phone call where the caller knows way too much about him for Nathan to hang up.  The caller tells Nathan not to walk over the bridge in the backyard and to destroy it.  The problem we don't really learn anything, except the backs story of Nathan.  Why can't you walk over this bridge, it's never explained considering the story's title is pretty much that question?  Who are the people that have somehow accumulated in a three hour time period who are screaming in the background of the phone call?  How did the caller discover it is possible to ring Nathan in the three hour period and how is it possible? Why are Nathan's pursuers so determined to get him in particular?  None of these questions are answered, the writing style is okay but since none of the big questions are tackled at all you've got to wonder is what's the point?