Review: The Yellow Wolfpaper
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2013
It is not usual for horror shorts to be written from the female point of view...unless there's a lot of sweaty paranormal boomchickapowpow going on.  I mean, if you want fun sexytime books that fill in the gaps left behind when True Blood is off the air you can pretty much go anywhere.But if you're looking for a unique story that reinterprets the female biological clock and familial relationship dynamics as a genre speculative tale, those just aren't really thick on the ground,  you know.It's a shame, too, because once you read this short story by Heckenbach you'll wish there were more like it.  It's very interesting to see how a woman's ordinary relationships become, ironically, not-so-ordinary when put through the crucible of Wereism.In fact, it's a great service to the title because one sees the deep irony in it, but also the truth.  Janey isn't ordinary.  Her situation isn't ordinary.  But in a way....it is.  Because not all women are werewolves, but all women go through changes and meet obstacles--like Janey did--that they must choose not only if they will move past them but HOW they will move past them.  This story works on two levels, as all good folklore should.