Review: What Happens When Mothers Have Unhealthy Relationships With Their Son
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2012
This is a well written short story.  It's got the odd error in it such as finding gloves in a glove box, yet the people who did that later say they only glanced at the vehicle as they walked into a diner. However there's nothing a decent editor couldn't fix and this could easily be put into print and appear amongst other more well known authors in a professional various author short story collection and be one of the better stories in there.The Loneliest Road basically follows a depressed loser type guy who never got over the death of his mother.  He had married a woman who looked and acted like her, but unfortunately she has just died of cancer and never gave him a little version of his mum to call his own.  Now he's hit the road in order to clear his head and hopefully move on.  He's in the middle of nowhere and he's getting hungry. There's a diner on the side of the road, strange he thinks, as it doesn't appear on his map.  Stranger though, is the fact the waitress looks like a blonde version of his wife/mum in her healthier younger days.  But is he now the creepiest guy in this little community?A very well written 30 minute or so length short story.  It is hard to like or feel anything for the narrator but still it works.