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January 31, 2023
"Brett didn't feel at peace. His mind was racing. Would his consciousness remain years, centuries after they buried him? Was this hell or some kind of purgatory? What came next?"
Assisted Suicide by Adam Moon is a short story about a suicidal man named Brett who believes he has successfully committed suicide. However, much to his surprise, Brett wakes up at his own funeral.
My rating: 1/5.
Spoilers below
I don't expect much from free short stories on the Apple Bookstore. In fact, I have zero expectations and yet, these stories always end up worse. Not only is Brett, the main character, kind of annoying, he has conflicting emotions that make the story too confusing. One could chalk this up to him going through a traumatic event and being confused, but I feel like that's giving it too much credit.
In particular, Sarah—his nurse girlfriend—is a "dumbass" for trying to help him, but a few pages later Brett describes her as "cute, friendly, had a good enough job, and she loved him unconditionally" so one can imagine my confusion. Can someone be two things at the same time? Sure. But Brett and Sarah's relationship isn't explored much so I had no idea if this was normal of him to say.
The ending comes out of nowhere, too. Sarah, being pissed at her boyfriend for always attempting suicide (how friendly of her, by the way) explains to him through exposition that she essentially sedated him enough to declare him dead, and wasted everyone's time and money by planning a funeral and cremation just for Brett to "learn his lesson."
In concept, I believe this story had a chance to be much better. Saying it's just a short story doesn't excuse that short stories have been written before and had much more going on below the surface. Moon could benefit from not using long-winded paragraphs explaining everything and instead using mood/atmosphere to foreshadow. Also...making his characters more likeable, even if they are terrible people.
Assisted Suicide by Adam Moon is a short story about a suicidal man named Brett who believes he has successfully committed suicide. However, much to his surprise, Brett wakes up at his own funeral.
My rating: 1/5.
Spoilers below
I don't expect much from free short stories on the Apple Bookstore. In fact, I have zero expectations and yet, these stories always end up worse. Not only is Brett, the main character, kind of annoying, he has conflicting emotions that make the story too confusing. One could chalk this up to him going through a traumatic event and being confused, but I feel like that's giving it too much credit.
In particular, Sarah—his nurse girlfriend—is a "dumbass" for trying to help him, but a few pages later Brett describes her as "cute, friendly, had a good enough job, and she loved him unconditionally" so one can imagine my confusion. Can someone be two things at the same time? Sure. But Brett and Sarah's relationship isn't explored much so I had no idea if this was normal of him to say.
The ending comes out of nowhere, too. Sarah, being pissed at her boyfriend for always attempting suicide (how friendly of her, by the way) explains to him through exposition that she essentially sedated him enough to declare him dead, and wasted everyone's time and money by planning a funeral and cremation just for Brett to "learn his lesson."
In concept, I believe this story had a chance to be much better. Saying it's just a short story doesn't excuse that short stories have been written before and had much more going on below the surface. Moon could benefit from not using long-winded paragraphs explaining everything and instead using mood/atmosphere to foreshadow. Also...making his characters more likeable, even if they are terrible people.
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