Review: Brilliant!  You'll Look Long and Hard to Find Anything Original in a Bank Robbery Tale, But Ty Hutchinson Does Just That!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2012
The Perfect Plan will take you around twenty minutes to read.  Make sure you've got lunch already in front of you as you won't be walking away from the story once you've begun.  I had never heard of Ty Hutchinson before coming across this amongst the free/cheap Kindle downloads, but I've already ordered his first novel Chop Suey.  If he can write novels even half as well as he does this short story, well I just can't wait to find out.  This is a short story of a guy and a girl simply known as the robber and the babe, who think they'll just waltz into a bank, draw their guns and leave a minute or so later with around $30 000.  Things start to go wrong straight away, there's hardly any money in the cash drawers, the safe is locked down until after the long weekend and one of the tellers has pressed the silent alarm.  They are now in a highly stressful situation which is about to get a whole lot worse.  One of the hostages has a unique plan to add to their stress and ensure their own survival.This is a very well written short story. You could feel the stress coming off the bank robbers as well as the hostages by their language, false bravadory, infighting and just the way the tension of the bank floor is described.  Most bank robbery stories are pretty similar but I don't think I'll ever come across a bank robbery tale with this idea ever again.