Review: Really short short horror stories, but worth reading. Excellent writing style.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2012
Paul Dail wrote five well written short short horror stories. He has an excellent voice and writing style. The added author notes after each story give the book a little more volume.He says in his introduction that he took short stories and made them shorter (under 1000 words) for an exercise in writing and the challenge. Although the stories stand alone as flash fiction, they seem like simply ideas, or clips, from something that could be developed into a longer more detailed form. Flash fiction is it's own form. I can understand wanting a challenge, but it seems like a story could be told better if it is just left to itself instead of trying to make it small. Flash fiction is not so much like a bonsai tree. It's more like a buzz hair cut - not pretty.I haven't read much flash fiction. I would think writing a really good flash story would be extremely difficult if not impossible.In any case, I still give these stories 5 out of 5 stars, simply because of writing style. The book is definitely worth downloading.