Review: Suppose we had the power to control what we want to control
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2011
This is a surreal tale of a young man who is bored with life. He works hard and long and has no opportunity to interact with people and establish relationships. After work, he stumbles home and watches adventure and horror films. The word "sway" in the short story's title could mean "influence," "control," and "manipulate," and this is what he thinks is happening to him on a subway one night heading home. He thinks that in the films that he watches people develop good, close, meaningful, and warm relationships during disasters. They can become heroes in disasters. He sees a beautiful woman with a man and thinks, if a disaster occurred, I could be a hero and develop a relationship with this lovely sweet smelling lady. And what he hopes for occurs, or does it?