Review: started as a nice story but ended very abruptly.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2011
I realized this was a 99 cent short story going in but was disappointed with the ending.  It was like the author finished it in a hurry to make a buck, or maybe took the start of a novel and turned it into a short story.  Lots of things left hanging.  ***SPOILERS AHEAD***  For instance, was Brian's poetry really any good or had he just gone from being a depressed perpetual loser to a perpetual loser with delusions of grandeur?  Did the children (non characters, not fleshed out at all) have to move home and be, gasp, raised by the parents rather than boarding schools now that the family was dependent on the mother's job alone?  Hustling pastries could only make a few hundred dollars a month in most areas, not enough for Irish vacations and boarding schools.The 99 cent kindle novels for sale on here written by novice authors are much better than this short story.