Review: A beautiful and powerful short story.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
This is a story about a suicide, and the imagined last moments in the life of a young man. The writing is both intentionally harsh and heartbreakingly beautiful. "Splendor is like that, at times, soft and generous, and at other times magnificence lies juxtaposed to hard planes and tiny cracked imperfections." Ms. Hartzenburg's imagery of starless nights and pitch black depths of water invokes the majesty of life in such way that the reader is confounded by the young man's choice to die. The author's words to her readers at the end of the story are also well worth reading. I look forward to reading more from Ms. Hartzenburg.