Review: Excellent short story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2013
“Alice in Wonderland” is the second short story that I have read by Nancy Christie.Alice is a woman of indeterminate age, who is looking after her elderly and infirm mother. Their relationship is anything but loving. Alice’s mother is rude, demanding and belittling, treating her daughter as a slave, while Alice is longing for her mother’s death. Alice feels trapped in the house - her mother makes so many demands upon her time that she feels her own life has ended.However, Alice does have an escape and that is through the written word.  Many of us seek solace in books; many of us read avidly, “devouring” the written word as if it feeds our very being. Alice dreams of hot, dry places, where she is waited on and all her needs are met; at any opportunity in her busy, mundane day, she will escape to these places. For her, “devouring” the written word has reached another level.I am full of admiration for Nancy Christie’s writing. In a few short pages, she created characters that I can picture and a story which drew me in, leaving me wanting more.Thank you again to Pixel Press for providing me with the opportunity to read this pre-publication, in return for my honest review.