Review: Another great short surreal story by Scribner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2011
Joshua Scribner authored over 100 short stories, most of which are surreal, nightmarish, but clever and good. Mark and his wife Mary, her sister Tina and Tina's husband Robert suddenly find themselves in a house with a sign, "This house is protected by a good spirit. No evil may enter here." They had no intention of coming to this place. They had been at a concert, then at Denny's, and were on their way home. But something snatched them and brought them to this house, killed their car engine, and stopped their cell phones from working. They heard something cackling outside. They knew it was evil. They began to chant, "You can't enter because you are evil." But what brought them here? "What rule has been broken?" Mark wonders. His bad act must have brought them, he thought. He recalled wanting to sleep with a woman who was not his wife. Are bad thoughts wrong? Then a voice called from outside to Mary in Tina's voice begging her to come help her. Mary a nurse rose to go. Both Mark and Tina were paralyzed by some force and couldn't call out to warn her that it was a trick to get her away from the house refuge, because Tina was in the house. Readers will find out what happens next.