Review: Don't miss this Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2010
I am not really a fan of flash fiction so I am not going to comment on those but I wanted to mention that the short stories in this collection (Exhibit A, The  Spider and the Fly,  The Lake and One Last Dinner Party). Are all very good reads.Exhibit A is a look into the mind of a very twisted (but remarkably lucid) killer.  Entirely one sided and evocative we learn so much we want to look away...  Pretty scary and its only six pages!The Spider and the Fly introduces us to Beakle and The Boy.  While the title of the piece tells us exactly what part each will play the author really draws you in and still manages go shock the he'll out of us at the end.The Lake is more standard fare than the others by David McAfee as it is  a strait up "The college students are gonna die" horror story but it certainly is well done.  More than once I was almost yelling at page "You idiot that is going to get you killed" just as one would when watching a goofy B picture.I feel guilty saying this but the stand out piece of the book is the short story by David Dalglish.  And end of the world piece you could feel the weight these people were under.  Every sentence brought you closer and closer to "the end" for these people and you REALLY felt it...  The characters,  the dialog,  the pacing... The ending... AAA all the way.