Sirens of Mercy review
Something to tide me over until my next publication:
http://www.newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/2005_12/declitmags.htm
(Look for the review of Rainbow Curve - they're alphabetical)
"...The five short stories in the spring issue seem to share a common penchant for unforgiving narrators engaged in disturbing behavior of some kind or other, whether it’s the distorted saintliness of an 911 dispatcher euthanizing his own mother in Andrew S. Bodine’s masterfully written “Sirens of Mercy,” the disgust of authority by a drug-dealing teenager in Larry Crist’s jagged “Restitution,” or the day-to-day cold-bloodedness of a hit-man gluing shut his victim’s jaw in Philip Gardner’s “Somebody Wants Somebody Dead.”..."
http://www.newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/2005_12/declitmags.htm
(Look for the review of Rainbow Curve - they're alphabetical)
"...The five short stories in the spring issue seem to share a common penchant for unforgiving narrators engaged in disturbing behavior of some kind or other, whether it’s the distorted saintliness of an 911 dispatcher euthanizing his own mother in Andrew S. Bodine’s masterfully written “Sirens of Mercy,” the disgust of authority by a drug-dealing teenager in Larry Crist’s jagged “Restitution,” or the day-to-day cold-bloodedness of a hit-man gluing shut his victim’s jaw in Philip Gardner’s “Somebody Wants Somebody Dead.”..."