Review: A gritty and very belivable short story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2013
I pretty much don't give short stories a 5 star rating, as they don't compare to novels, so a 4 star is my top rating for a short story. This one earned it.Wow, what can I say but gritty, desperate, life like, well written. The story follows a young girl, thrown out on the street when her drug addicted mum can't make rent. They end up in 'The Shelter' really, a multi story car park. She lives on the edge, the fringes. She forms tenuous friendships, and does what she can to survive. Sadly finding out that sometimes to survive, you need to do the unberable and unthinkable.The sad and scary thing about this story, is that somewhere, it is probably very close to the truth for some people. Living on the fringes, drug addled, desperate.Definitely a writer to keep an eye on. This was a great story, even if sad. It was written with the right degree of realism, and the right degree of coverage, not all the details and not a daily blow by blow story,but rather one well spaced out in time.As someone who has been homeless, I could relate to it only too well.