Review: The consequences of anger
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2011
This is a very short story of only 2000 words.  The author, John T. Gaffield, has written a story about a man who is so stressed and so angry about everything that is going on in his world, losing contracts at work, that he drives much too fast through his neighborhood streets, and as a consequence one of the neighbors is constantly yelling at him to "Slow down!"What happens when Scott doesn't slow down is a series of very bad things, but Scott doesn't seem in the least affected by them.  He has children, but it's the contracts at work that worry him more than anything else, and what is on his mind most of all.  He's mean to his wife, and is more interested in taking the businessmen to a ballgame than he is in helping his kids with their homework.This is a story of road rage at its worst.  Besides Scott's anger issues, there is the creep factor in this story.  I wasn't expecting what eventually happens, but enjoyed this story, even if I didn't like Scott.