Review: 3 of the Most Entertaining Short Stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2011
This is a collection of three fanciful paranormal short stories that were vastly different from each other yet all earned 5 stars.Each story delivered authentic characters with easily identifiable personalities that are effortlessly loveable (or detestable).  They are characters that one could actually know as each one is believable.  The son in the first story does exactly what one would expect of a teenager - something not completely thought-out and that gets him into a bit of trouble.  Mom does what all moms do - she takes care of her son.  In this case, she just happens to be a witch and he a warlock and the trouble is hysterically funny and amusingly told in such a way as to make the truly fanciful - plausible!That exceptional ability to make the bizarre actually believable is also an element in the second story as well.  It is easy to imagine the creative characters causing chaos in the waiting room.  It is a short story that is skillfully written that takes an absurd scene and turns it into a visual image.  I could see the duck fly across the room just as easily as I could feel the cat claws climbing up the cloth robe to reach it.  I could hear the thwack as things bounced off the walls.  AND THRU all that chaos, I could see the forgotten old man in plain clothes just sitting there waiting.While the third story was less fanciful and had fewer flamboyant characters, it was no less entertaining or amusing than the first two.  Whether Kit was drinking her third cup of tea to get another reading or if she was calculating how many ways she could spend the cash, her character was well developed, the scene easily envisioned and the tale moved quickly, plausibly and unpredictably.Each short story brought an unpredictable but satisfying conclusion while allowing a hint of a question of what else could happen.  These are definitely 3 of the most entertaining short stories I have read lately.