Review: Master craftsmanship
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2013
This short story is nothing short of exceptional.  It manages to compress many years of a boy's life into just a few pages.  It does this by focusing on only a selected aspect of his life.  However, we don't miss what we don't see.  We get just enough clues to round him out into a fairly normal boy with a full life and a distinct personality.  That's all we need.  The storytelling here is masterful.I saw the "big reveal" coming before it hit, but I didn't mind.  It seemed likely, but not absolutely certain.  It had a similar feel to a mystery where you think you know the answer, but you haven't learned if you are right yet.  In any case, I enjoyed the journey from beginning to end.  I really like how it stayed open at the end, so you get to write that final chapter yourself.  There are at least a dozen different possibilities.I can't find a single thing to complain about.