Review: A very clever story that is told very well
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2011
Most of Scribner's short stories are weird, but good. This one is not weird, once it is understood, and it is also good. Mark age 22 is in South Carolina getting ready to begin graduate school. His cousin kept phoning him everyday asking him to come to him. But he doesn't want to go to California or work with his cousin. He finds a bicycle shop that he is sure wasn't there when he looked on another occasion. He went in and bought a bicycle. When he started to ride home, he saw that the way home had no sidewalks, and there was a sign forbidding driving bikes on the road. He went home by a long way. The next day he saw that there was a sidewalk. Then a sidewalk appeared to the Taco Bell. Then one that led out of town. He followed the sidewalk that led out of town. It went into a forest where there was a bright light. I leave the rest of the story for the reader's enjoyment.