Review: Powerful, delivering insightful messages
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2013
With these three short stories, Ms. Worstall showcases a masterful ability to weave common relational themes into storylines that are not only strikingly different but, also, incredibly engaging. Each story is powerful, delivering insightful messages with very few words.THE STRAWBERRY THIEF started out with a mystery regarding 100 year old bones. Ms. Worstall, however, cleverly wove in a bit of the supernatural as the characters of current time got caught in a chilling mystery of their own. This story was a finalist in the Words Unlimited short story contest; I see why it was such a strong contender.PEACOCK & DRAGON addresses a potentially tragic circumstance in the life of a teenage girl. Ms. Worstall beautifully scripts the emotions - fear, despair, hope and love - and also, the views/choices of both the mother and her daughter.  The poignancy in the story when help comes from `someone,' unexpected, is brilliant. I love how the author took me forward in time to meet the young woman who had once been a girl facing a tough choice.LOVE IS ENOUGH took me into the dark side of relational circumstances when the innuendo and reputation of one conspire in the mind of another to result in a tragic choice. She caught me by surprise.