Review: Our World Shadowed Over by the Twilight Zone
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2012
Dark Blessings by John Paul Allen starts with worlds and people we can recognize.  They're nice and not so nice.  They're normal and some touched with a tinge of weirdness.  The most important thing is that they "feel" real.  You can grasp them; touch them.  Then, doncha know, the strange elementals of the Twilight Zone step in and you are in for a strange ride.  "Pit Stop at Hoo Hoo Hollow" becomes a lesson in joking around about our prospective hells.  "Runs Like a Rabbit" is a clash of cultures that can end in a bad way.  "Hello Neighbor" is an exercise in how much you can trust your neighbors.  "Marquee" is a weird entry in the world of soul mates (someone, explain the story to me).  "Prader Willie" is a teenager's look at the world of the "mentally challenged", a sister outside the bounds of supposed normal human society.  "Weeping Mary" looks at a teenage girl and her adoptive family with their strange religious cult centering around the "first" wife of Adam.  "House Guest" is a story I would place under the Column of Creepy.  I'm sure the family involved would have preferred the Peeping Tom outside and not the Nutcase inside.  The writing is good and very worthy of your downloading it and reading it.  You won't go amiss with Dark Blessings.