Review: ouch
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2012
I've giving Top Mark five stars for how well written the story was.  It made you feel, made you question, made your heart pound in what it knew was inevitable dread.  The entire thing is told from the perspective of the inner workings/thoughts of the protagonist.  I have to say this--I'm so sick of readers on book review sites giving low rating to novels/short stories because they were sad or the reader didn't like how the story ended, or because it made them hurt, or--god forbid--it's not your cliche romance novel like every other thing you've read recently.  That's good writing folks!  If a short can accomplish that much emotion (especially in something as short as this), you've got something special in your hands.  This is not a happy, fun read.  However, it is an excellent written story--in some ways a study of realization as a man comes to terms with the truth of his relationship and his own instability.  Gonna take a bit to shrug off the melancholy this story brought forth.  Maybe not a funny, easy feeling, but thank you for the gift of artful wordplay and story telling, Graeme Aitken.