Review: Highly recommended
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2012
It is a real treat when you have a day off work to find not one but two new short stories by David Wailing. Here we have two tales based around childhood and summer, but with totally different scenarios.First up we have Fifth Season, about what happens when a new fifth season suddenly arrives. It is told from the perspective of a young boy, Duncan and to me, as a mother of two boys, seems really realistic. I can certainly imagine a young boy looking on what is going on in the world in the way that Duncan does, and reacting just as he does. Highly realistic in a futuristic, David Wailing way.The second story is Nineteen Seventy Stevew, set in the long hot summer of, yes, 1970something and is about a young boy called Steve. It is a story that will have you "oohing" and "aahing" with nostalgic memories of funny feet lollipops, Evel Knievel, and recording the Sunday night chart run down on your tape cassette player. You could almost be forgiven for thinking that the author is experimenting with a new genre, but then suddenly everything tilts in a wackier than an episode of Wacky Races way and you find yourself in the Twilight Zone. I have to say, I think this is my favourite of all his short stories and have read it twice already!(bought on amazon.co.uk)