Review: Retribution
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2011
This story is dark without being suffocating, and that's due to this author's skill and ability to construct a story that is clever and sharp, each word of it flowing into the next, smoothly connecting thoughts and actions into a biting portrait of a disturbed but interesting character.Nathan is an angry and embittered man. Full of contempt and hate, he obsesses over the suicide of his wife and the note she left him. With his wife having the final and last word on a failure of a marriage, Nathan focuses all his loathing and rage on the man with whom his wife cheated.With cold detachment, Nathan begins to initiate his plan of revenge. As some unplanned events unfold, he soon realizes that the old maxim 'All things in good time' is true. He might just have his revenge served to him on a platter.This author has a very easy and natural writing style, just really effortless in showing the story and not telling me the story. Filled with cutting descriptions, all sharply detailed but fluid, this short story is very well-written and intelligent, acerbic in tone, and with a nice little twist there at the end.