Review: Shattered reflections
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2013
We all have look-alikes, I've personally met a couple of my own. Neither looked 100% like me, but they were similar. Dennis, on the other hand, has found an author that not only looks similar to him... he looks EXACTLY like him, without one single difference, even down to the tiniest details. The only difference he can find is that this guy is famous, has an amazing life, a wife, and a son, is now the reason Dennis is feeling envious. Since they look like mirror images of each other, it shouldn't be too hard to replace one another, right?This seemed like quite a departure from Mike's normal fright-fest department, no demons, monsters, or any other horror tropes used to great effects. Nor does it have much dialogue at all. Most of the story recollects Dennis stalking this man, trying to figure out how this guy could look exactly like him, have the life he always wanted, and having a couple sad (if not disturbing) flashbacks, which connect to a really devastating twist close to the end effortlessly, organically, and shows the story's primary themes (which I won't reveal, that alone could be too heavy a hint). Mike and Aaron do an excellent job at telling the story rather than throw out trivial details that would bog the story's effects down.Very close to the story's end, I ended up nearly crying from story twist to the final twist. Who knew Mike Dellosso could also be good at short stories?