Review: This Story Blew Me Away
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2012
Short Stories are like snacks between the meals of full-length novel-feasts. You'll finish the new short story by Emma Calin, The Chosen, in a scant fifteen minutes. But you'll want to read it again for the dialogue, and then maybe once more for the eerie setting.Two low-lifes hatch plans for making it big, starting with a humdrum paint job and devolving into an insurance scheme. There's a lady in the story, too, to coin a phrase.But the star of this story is the amazing dialogue, right out of a Harold Pinter stage-play."And what about cash right now -- we're skint mate.""Aye -- I've already thought of that. It's what Henry B. Grabitt calls a contingency. I'll call that Black Fin pay day loan company that's on the tele. Then I'll call them lawyers at Compensation Nation. They get you the money you fully deserve. Once everyone knows that I'm expecting a big payout they'll be begging to lend me cash. It's called having a business mind my friend. It's about grasping the moment."This story whips itself into a kaleidescope of colorful images and characters and expressions, each one sharper than the last, going off like firecrackers. Go ahead, have a little snack called The Chosen. It will blow you away.