Eternal, by Jennie Orbell
I truly enjoyed this collection, and I look
forward to reading more fiction by Jennie Orbell.
This is a wonderful, well-written collection of short
stories that reminded me, with their surprise endings, of the stories in the
television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Most of the stories have a macabre
hook to them, and I enjoyed how the author did not shy away from the graphic
blood and guts descriptions that contrasted her clean, crisp writing. Ms
Orbell's style combines the realism of an accomplished author with the
disorienting feeling one gets in those really good nightmares.
To read these stories is to oftentimes embark on a tour of
the darkest corners of the human soul - and to be returned safe and sound to
one's bed at the end of (most) tales.
