Review: Unusual and delightful short stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 8, 2011
I've read over a dozen short stories by Joshua Scribner, enjoyed them all, recommended them to friends, and wrote complimentary reviews of them. These three tales are no exception. Readers will enjoy Scribner's fine writing skills, his unusual plots, and the quick, no superfluous words, way he uses to present his often supernatural tales.In "Jerry's Garden," fourteen year old Jerry persuades his twelve year old sister Penny to eat okra that he grew in his garden and the soup he made from it. The vegetable affects her in a strange way. In "An Agnostic's Guide," an agnostic dies and his spirit watches his wife and a stranger who says he is a guide for people who died. The story tells us what happened to him and his wife. In "The Gate," a college student takes a job at a nursing home and sees black-suited men enter two rooms and follows them and finds out that the people in the rooms die. Just before a woman died, she told the student that she was visited by a black-suited man who said he controls the gate. What is going on?