Review: Sensory overload and plot deprivation
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
This short story has several good qualities going for it. The main character is sympathetic and very well fleshed-out for such a brief tale. The writing is concentrated on making you "sense" every moment of Kid's existence that is described. Description could well be said to be the soul of this story.I wish I could say plotting was the heart, but I failed to note that there was a heart to the narrative. Maybe the old saying, "actions speak louder than words," is the message/heart here. Maybe it's that even the desperate and choiceless are never really left without some other recourse. I don't know.The writing is viscerally compact and alarming, which works great for many fans of the horror genre, including me. It's why I'm giving this three stars. Minus two stars because it isn't something that will haunt me or stick in my head for long. I think with a little more life (to eviscerate later) would have made all the difference here.