Review: Exactly What a Short Story Should Be: Awesome
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2011
There's something unique in the world out there: writers you never heard of and work you never thought you might read. "Sleep" by Michael K. Rose fits both of those profiles, and it's refreshing to know there is more by this author. With a Poe-esque feel, "Sleep" takes you through the psychological breakdown a woman on a ship who really--and I mean really--needs to dispose of a body without being caught. While reading the story, I was constantly reminded of Poe's "Tell Tale Heart." Not that the prose is similar or that the story is the same; rather the feel of desperation was well documented and unsettling.Sleep is a short story done the way short stories should be done: quick, concise and full of goodness. I'm pleased there is that uniqueness in the world out there, and pleased to have been able to discover Michael K. Rose because of it.