Review: Countdown
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2011
What would you do if you suddenly were able to see a person's life actually tick away in bright red numbers clicking overhead, a number only you seemed to be able to see? What would you do with this knowledge of a person's exact minute of expiration? Would you circumvent Death and keep him from calling up someone's number? This is Andie's dilemma. The real question: Can you really outsmart and cheat Death?This very short story starts off well, if a bit slow, then picks up the pace and tension mid-way, but the last part of the tale was the real kicker. That ending made the whole story worth it. Even if it was slightly expected in some way, I still really enjoyed it. There was this satisfyingly terrible feeling of doom to the story; almost poetic in the idea of an avoidable fate.