Review: Phantom Limb Haunts its Owner
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2012
This is a five minute or so long short story revolving around a guy who stepped on an unexploded shell from the past.  The blast damaged his leg and killed his partner and sending him into deep depression.  He therefore blames his now useless foot for causing the misery that is his current life by stepping on the explosive, and all that he has lost.  Well meaning friends and family have put up a Christmas tree which only torments him more as doing this sort of this was a highlight of his relationship and a reminder of what his foot has taken away from him.  Amputees often talk of a phantom limb where they can feel their leg itching and the like, however his leg seems to be walking around and tormenting him further.It was an okay read, at times it contradicted itself, he is dragging the bad foot along at the start of the story, later he tells us he asked doctors to have the foot amputated but that this didn't happen, but then the next sentence he is referring to a plastic foot.  Maybe York had written the tale both ways and just forgot to delete that part.  It only takes you five minutes to read so you might as well give it a go if it's a free download, I don't know that it is worth paying money for though.