Review: Pointless story with a neurotic lead character
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2011
Marcie and her husband are in Taos on business.  Her husband's being a jerk to her, because he's anxious to get a contract signed on a business deal.  Meanwhile, he drops her off in town to do some shopping.  It seems that her purpose is to max out their credit card.  Her husband even tells her, "No diamonds."  Really???  While out and about, she spots a cowboy she saw earlier at the hotel.  She becomes fascinated with the tall stranger and concots an entire fantasy about him.  She gives him a name and imagines what he's doing in each shop. She dreams about him at night, making him the subject of all her fantasies, because her husband has grown cold toward her.  The story ends in a really unusual manner, where she actually talks to him and realizes he's nothing like she thought.  It's just really strange, and in the end, the reader  has to wonder what the purpose is.  It isn't romantic; it isn't adventurous; it isn't dramatic, either.  Thank goodness it's very short, because it was a complete waste of time.