Review: A strange tale of a headache
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2011
PULSING: A Short Story by Joshua Scribner is a strange story of a man who has been accidentally exposed to something in the chemical plant where he works. Two people are talking about "leaving that thing in the desert where they found it."  Whether this has anything to do with Kep's condition throughout this story is questionable.  What's going on in this story is very hard to figure out and the end is very uncertain.Kep has the worst headache of his life.  I noticed that another reviewer mentioned a migraine and Kep's headache does sound like a classic migraine.  There have been cases of psychosis with migraines.  The amygala is mentioned and that part of the brain has to do with memories that have to do with emotional events and also fear along with many other things.  Whether any of this applies to the story, I have no idea.It was fun to read this story, but at the end I really didn't know what was going on and what the problem was.  The ending didn't help clarify, but Joshua Scribner's short stories can frighten, confuse and like this one, just put me at a loss for its meaning. Scribner's are some of the best of the genre of horror and sci-fi that I've read, though.  I just need him to explain this one to me!