Review: A clever short story that can be read as a parable
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2011
Joshua Scribner writes bizarre, tantalizing, macabre tales, some about ghosts and other unusual beings, and some about vampires, like this one, but is this what it is about? This question adds to the fascination of his tale. Kep, a janitor with a pregnant wife, is lying strapped to a bed, and hooked up to a machine. Technicians explain that he has been exposed to something, they don't say what, at a chemical plant. He is a carrier, but unhurt himself. His head is pulsing.Suddenly he sees himself entering his apartment building. His head is pulsing. He has a headache. He is attacked by children. Are they vampires? Scribner does not say. He makes it up to his apartment and finds that his wife has been clawed to death. His child had been born. Then he is back on his back tied to the monitor. Are there children in this building, he asks. Yes, he is answered.... I leave all the details for the readers' enjoyment.