Review: Mayhem in the Mojave
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2012
Their husbands have just left on a long overseas deployment, so it was understandable that the thirteen Army wives would want to go into town to drown their sorrows in booze and commiserate with each other. It was a long drive from the base through the desert to the nearest place that passed for civilization, but the girls deserved a night out.The rumor mill said there was a killer lurking in the desert. Were the stories true, or were they just the product of overactive imaginations? Undeniably, though, a number of women had gone missing on the drive from the base into town. But surely the women would be safe if they all traveled together, right?"A Strange Place" was a pretty good story. It had a nice build-up, with a bit of foreshadowing of where it was headed, then a creepy ending. At 3,600 words, it was too long to be considered flash fiction, but not long enough to develop into a full-fledged short story (or perhaps even a novelette). I think there may be another story to be written, a longer one that focuses on Carol-Ann and her ordeal (that's all I'll say without revealing too much of the story).