What is your opinion?
Incredibly emotional
"Very interesting to read, it did an awesome job of raising emotional response. A very well executed flash fiction. It was also especially interesting to read as someone who's sympathetic to the other (Josh's) perspective. Double emotional whammy. A very good work from a very promising author."
Lovely story
"I like the author's writing style very much, and this story is so delicate and poignant...It flows, giving you details of what's going on little by little, and suggesting smells, colors and sounds... I really don't know what else to say--it was just beautiful and touched my heart. Re-reading it, I see the ending can have different interpretations, which is very cool. Pick yours."
Voodoo
"This is a very well contrived piece. The tantalizingly misleading (or so it seems) title undergoes subtle shifts of relevance as the narrative unfolds. The voice of the first person dramatized narrator is most convincing, as is the self-consciousness of the narrator herself. The reasoned selfishness shown here also convinces. The writing itself is good and certain lines sing in the memory: in the opening sentence the sunlight is decribed as a trespasser in the narator's darkened room - a fine vocabulary choice. Further on in the story the narrator describes her mother as "withering away from us". It is the choice of preposition that creates the effect here. All in all, this is a story that succeeds at every level for this reader."
