Showing posts with label No Laughing Matter: A Short Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No Laughing Matter: A Short Story. Show all posts

Friday, December 27, 2013


The Memory LightsThe Memory Lights by K.M. Weiland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The setting is Victorian London, and K. M. Weiland did it justice. She kept the whole story in the first person point of view. Mary, the protagonist, was experiencing a lost of memory. We experience her struggle as the story unfolds within Mary’s confused and frightened mind. She struggled with a lack of memory thicker than the fog that obscured the streetlights of London; the streets she wandered at night as Colin’s witless accomplice in common thievery and pickpocketing, along with a boy named Jack. I felt for Mary as she went through her traumatic jarring experience that revealed the truth, and brought the story to a satisfying end.

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

BOOK REVIEW - No Laughing Matter: A Short Story, by James Scott Bell

No Laughing MatterNo Laughing Matter by James Scott Bell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

MASTERFUL WRITING RINGS A JAMES SCOTT BELL

The tension in every sentence, every word, of this suspenseful short story caused me to inhale it in one breath. The main character, Paul Harvey, is a comedian that had just bombed on stage at a comedy club, then naturally proceeded to the bar to cry in his bourbon when he got an offer he couldn't refuse.