skyfox24kd's review
5.0
Whoah!
I’m still not sure what to think. That is a story that I may have to read again to let it sink in. It is definitely worth a read if you feel you can read about the dead in this context. Check the summary out first.
This story has that kind of, “Oh, I know what is really going on here!,” type of thing going for it until it doesn’t and you have to figure it out or fill in the blanks on your own.
In a way it reminds me of a Shirley Jackson story. This was eerie, otherworldly, tinted with the macabre and lined with the sublime. The writing drew me in and I felt as if I was with riding with Marion on her shoulder.
We join her sitting beside her dying father as he loses what little is left of his mind to fever. Despite the fact that she is ill also, she wipes his brow as he curses her. During the name calling, in arrives the priest, along with a doctor.
Maybe now there is hope for Marion? She can sew and tend to the dying.
The doctor gives her a job and the dominoes fall.
I’m still not sure what to think. That is a story that I may have to read again to let it sink in. It is definitely worth a read if you feel you can read about the dead in this context. Check the summary out first.
This story has that kind of, “Oh, I know what is really going on here!,” type of thing going for it until it doesn’t and you have to figure it out or fill in the blanks on your own.
In a way it reminds me of a Shirley Jackson story. This was eerie, otherworldly, tinted with the macabre and lined with the sublime. The writing drew me in and I felt as if I was with riding with Marion on her shoulder.
We join her sitting beside her dying father as he loses what little is left of his mind to fever. Despite the fact that she is ill also, she wipes his brow as he curses her. During the name calling, in arrives the priest, along with a doctor.
Maybe now there is hope for Marion? She can sew and tend to the dying.
The doctor gives her a job and the dominoes fall.
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