Review: Excellent story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2011
This story completely pulled me in. I love post-apocalyptic stories, where nothing in the world is as it used to be, and where characters are forced to kill or be killed, surviving by any means while they cling to whatever faint remnants of past times and faded memories remain.With this story, I actually felt part of it, as if I were living in that trailer, in that suit and mask, afraid of the outside world. I know that soothing feeling of a confined space, that comfort of knowing every corner and safe place within it, where you are hidden and safe inside and the scary things are waiting outside. When the author breaks this sense of safety with the rattling doorknob, the pounding on the walls from the outside, I was holding my breath, waiting in fear also.I don't want to spoil the story by telling too much. There is so much going on in this story, a lot of action, and most of it psychological, and all of it thrilling. My mind was racing, trying to anticipate what was going to happen next, and all the while, my heart was beating in that almost painful tempo of anxious tension.The author ends this story with some unexpected surprises and a heck of a cliffhanger. I have to say when that mask came off our survivor that I wasn't expecting that. Now, I feel compelled to read the next book, just to see how the narrator of this story and the surprise visitor get out of this situation alive.From the first-person narration, which made me feel as if this survivor were confiding directly in me, to my real and intense feeling of fear and panic, this short story really caught me and wouldn't let go. Written and paced in such a way that action and consequence build, this story is executed with real skill; it is exciting, engrossing-- just an excellent story all the way around.