Review: 5 page short story (minus front- and end-matter)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
SOLIDER COME HOME runs five pages on my reader.  Nice, quick, simple.  Myla Jackson has written a quickie...filled with two hot sex scenes (one remembered, one upon his return) between husband and wife...Jimmy (the soldier) ...and the wife...whose name I don't think we were ever given.  It worked OK...it was told in first person, and while Jimmy calls her "sweetheart," not by name.The story is rich with the wife's longing, missing her soldier husband who's been overseas for a year.  Without children, she's particularly lonely.  We don't know any details...does she work?  Is she without support of other military wives?  We don't know.  She's just craving any sort of contact as jimmy's letters have become conspicuously absent, no Skype contact, no emails.  she's justifiably worried.  But Jimmy does come home.Nice, short, quick.  Probably published with the purpose of introducing the writer's style and putting an excerpt of her other work (list of titles and an excerpt from Sex Ed....which takes up the  majority of the end matter, about 6 pages).Sensuality level: spicyLanguage: PGRecommended to fans of very short stories, military romance, contemporaries.