Review: What Does the Big D Mean to People Like Us?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 7, 2011
Curtains is a collection of short stories centering around the Big D, Death, the Big Sleep.  To a lot of horror writers, it is visceral description of organs, arteries, and veins in full view of all who see them.  The loving description of anything and everything that wants to make us gag and empty our lunch.  To most of us, though, it's the innermost drives, pushes, and completions of getting rid of the problems in our lives.  The eleven short stories in Curtains do not rank in the realm of horror, unless you think about it.  Curtains has nine short stories by Scott Nicholson, one by J.A. Konrath, and another by Simon Wood.  Scott writes lovingly about a man and his dog (who cannot exist without the other, especially when one is dying), a man with an obessession with coffins and the women he will respect, the battleground between the died-in-the-wool patriot and his hippie neighbor, & and universal appeal of a woman striking back at the male race on one of the social venue's media - the radio.  J.A. Konrath delivers the ultimate gamble on an ultimate poker game and a mind that could have thunk.  Simon Woods, an artist in his own right, doing his best to release the albatross around his neck, his in-laws.  We are talking about Death, our own or the lives of others, all according to how our emotions lead us.  Pull your mind from the wrap-around horror of details destined to make you release what you just ate.  Reclaim the human destiny and what makes us tick.  Click on Download and start reading the stuff that makes tick, live, and survive.  I dare you - do it now!