Review: Fantos
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2011
The narrator of the story works as a bouncer in a small-town tribal casino/club. In one week, he encounters two strangers with unknown intentions. Just what is their motivation? Their secrets? This is one of those open-ended stories where you assign the meaning, where you have to decide a character's intention. Just as you think you have it pieced together, the author purposefully leaves you with one last question to ask yourself.This story may be short (413 locations), but it still has some substance to it. It's well-written with ease and skill and has just the right moody feeling to it. It has a supernatural or magical slant and a dark and shadowy tone. The author really allows the reader to feel that. This is a well done short story, layered and nicely complicated with mystery, and for its length, it has some good twists to it and packs a nice punch. I like when the author hits me with the unexpected and I then have to decide what I want to believe.