Review: Starts out depressing, but ends on a ray of hope
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2012
This is a short story about a young woman named Cathy who has withdrawn from the world, even her family. Her idea of reaching out is by making anonymous phone calls just so she can hear the person on the other end of the line say "Hello? Hello?" and then hang up. (Reminds me of someone whose idea of socializing is hanging out in online chat rooms.) Everything changes when she connects with Seth.I thought Selena Kitt did an excellent job of conveying Cathy's sense of loneliness and fear and isolation, all packaged in a fake I-don't-care attitude. I know there were moments in time, way back when I was Cathy's age, that I felt like I was this Cathy, so the story felt pretty personal to me. I found my Seth, too. :)I enjoyed it.