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3.5*
The narrative voice made this less spooky, not more. Didn't land for me but I can see what it was trying to do.
Welcome to Day 19 of my 2021 25 Days of Short Stories Christmas Advent Calendar. Each day I will be reading a short story from the collection of over 600 short stories and novellas available for free on Tor.com. This is a collection of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. I will be letting fate (and the random number generator) decide what I read each day**.Day 1: The Art of Space Travel by Nina AllanDay 2: These Deathless Bones by Cassandra KhawDay 3: Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron> (Trigg...
Strong start, but fizzled out by the middle. I enjoyed the description of the apple.
Fairly well-written, great description, and some genuinely creepy atmosphere. It just didn’t really work for me.
A horror short story, Stephen King light. The first half is strong and intriguing, then it gets sketchy.
what's fun is that i read this story and mere DAYS later, my bestie greg was in the ICU with babesiosis, a disease he contracted from A TICK! Everything stopped. It was pitch black inside, or at least I thought so at first. In retrospect, though, that moment was like the first glance up past streetlights into night sky. It takes a while. What we like to call stars coming out is really just our eyes adjusting. Finally seeing what’s there.i was excited to see that this week's free tor short was a
Review of eBookA documentary [ghost-hunting] filmmaker finds himself tapped for jury duty where a strange fellow juror [who works night security] engages him in a strange conversation. And then the strange fellow, inexplicably excused from jury duty, wanders out of the courtroom looking forlorn.A couple of weeks later, the filmmaker finds himself thinking about the strange almost-juror, tries to track him down. Eventually, Look Outs, Incorporated [where, according to the cursive name on the unif...
This was an interesting story about meeting a weirdo at jury duty. It had some creepy moments.
August Review #1: Black Leg by Glen Hirshberg A documentary filmmaker tracks down the man who told him a myriad of ghost stories during jury duty. The trail leads to an abandoned shopping mall where the man supposedly works as a nightguard. He experiences weird supernatural occurrences, even worse than what the guard described to him. Glen Hirshberg's writing style is something that drives me batty; it is constantly rambling and pretentious, ruining the subtle horror and complex themes he tries
A horror story which begins with jury service, which is a solid idea - it's already a space outside the normal run of life, where people meet who otherwise never would. Also, I think I still have a scar from the last time I did it, nearly a decade ago, thanks to a curiously bloodthirsty chair. But what happens here is definitely worse.