Review: Very Predictable But Fun Christmas Eve Tale Set in a Morgue
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2012
This short story will take you around ten minutes to read.  The main character Mark, a guy halfway through his work placement training in a morgue is a fairly likeable character for the most part, although he's not too familiar with sexual harassment laws or more importantly doesn't believe in them.  But then again bullying and belittling him are also common practice from his boss who went to high school with Mark four years earlier.  There's certainly some cheesy The Todd from Scrubs style lines from Mark throughout this story as he tries to get in the pants of Kim the receptionist, who he also went to school with four years earlier.  Such as when she asks him if he needs his teddy, he replies I'd like to see you in a teddy! Mark is supposed to be spending his first night working in the morgue alone, he's supposed to have one fresh corpse delivery, however just after closing time two relatives of a corpse waiting for the funeral the next day have arrived and want to view the body, when they are not arguing with each other that is.The mystery of what is going on with strange sounds and thing disappearing is very predictable but still it's a fairly enjoyable read. I didn't feel it believable that Mark would been flirting with cheesy pickup lines when he is scared there is an intruder and other times when danger is around, nor that Kim would just go along with this if this was real life. But this is a nice alternative to all the North Pole, religious, kids save Santa, distant relatives get together for dinner Christmas tales, so when you're sick of those, you might want to give Christmas Corpse Caper a try.