Review: Excellent short stories!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2011
I must admit that I was a bit put off by the cover of this short story collection.  I don't normally mind violence in stories, but the cover did seem a bit disgusting.  Thankfully, I didn't find any of the stories to be disturbing to that extreme.  I actually enjoyed nearly all of them and found that some of them actually did give me a few chills as I read them at night.STORIES:-The first three stories take place in a hospital, and the first two of these were my personal favorites of the entire download.The first story told of a man who woke up in the hospital temporarily deaf from a recent accident.  Therefore, it seems strange that he can hear screams coming from another part of the hospital...The second hospital story went down to the basement where a forensic pathologist and his assistant are examining a recent dead body.  As they examine how this woman died, they come across some rather surprising results...The third story I didn't care much for.  It told of two men who wake up in a hospital room, yet they don't seem to be quite mortal anymore.  While I understood it, it still didn't make that much sense to me and seemed to clash with the other two hospital stories.-The next story was a three-parter, and it dealt with the extremely immoral lifestyle led by those who live in the streets.  Miri was forced to take on a horrible way of life just to survive; Joe just wanted to help those in the streets.  Unfortunately, there's something out there in the streets, killing all that come his way and striking fear in everyone's heart.-The final story was another that I didn't particularly enjoy as much as the others; it dealt with an illness that was covering the world, causing people to slowly die in a very painful way.  It was more of a drama rather than horror like the others, and it just didn't seem to fit in with this particular collection of stories.WRITING STYLE:I absolutely loved the way this author wrote.  It kept me entertained the entire time, and like I said earlier, it had the power to creep me out as I read it at night.  Sometimes, with short stories, the plots don't get developed enough and leave us readers feeling a bit confused; this author, however, had none of that as all of his stories (with perhaps the exception of the third) were very well developed and didn't seem abruptly ended at all.  In addition to the excellent way the stories were written, I didn't catch any typos, and I thought the mechanical aspects of the writing were superb, as well.WARNINGS:Mild Language, Sexual Insinuations, Drug and Alcohol Reference, Violence, Mild PerilOVERALL:I was really impressed with these stories.  Honestly, I didn't expect to enjoy them nearly as much as I did.  Two of the stories were a little bit lacking for me, but the other stories were extremely excellent in all aspects.  I would highly recommend these stories to all who enjoy short horror stories.  It's not as violent or horrific as the cover may suggest, and I am very happy that I decided to download it.