Review: Funny and thoughtful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
"Road Rash" by Bonnie Bernard is a great thoughtful and funny short story about life after death. Wayne Wright dies in a motorcycle accident and awaits his judgement day in a rather unusual setting.Wright is a rough guy with a filthy mouth but maybe just possibly with a good enough heart to avoid the worst.As usual Bernard spices her writing with plenty of great phrases and wordings, and her characters are reliably funny and entertaining.This piece is a little more serious than some of her other works as it addresses the issues of religious beliefs about the afterlife not just with passing comedy but with some deeper thoughts along the way, satisfying all of her readers: Those who are there for the puns and the writing style and those who wonder about the moral aspect of the story.The ending was unexpected and added to the thoughtful tone of the story. This is a hugely enjoyable take on multicultural and multi-denominational America and the world,a musing on what heaven and hell are and who gets to judge what who deserves.