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Bookmark on DeliciousPublished: Aug. 28, 2009
Words: 14435 (approximate)
Language: English
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Forget 'Death Panels,' when senior citizens heard about a government program with a few incentives they flocked to the Pathway Houses where the Pathway led to their deaths. They went willingly and made it the most successful government program--ever. It's fiction, but written in straight newspaper style, which makes it all the more chilling.Tags
government betrayal, conspiracy, government conspiracy, senior citizen, euthenasia, sinister, 1984, cremationAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Francis Porretto
on Dec. 26, 2010 :
Telegraphic, bloodless...and chilling. Believably chilling.
No two writers are alike. This isn't the sort of thing I would ever have thought to write myself, and the style is 'way distant from mine, so I have some difficulty with making suggestions about it, but I'll do my best.
First, the human dimension of the story is a bit thin. The changes in your Marquee characters are very delicate, possibly too delicate to provide a full emotional climax. Also, if you were to swap the last and next-to-last scenes, I think the impact would improve.
Second, your punctuation is a wee bit irregular. That's probably just a matter of the occasional oversight, so you might want to have a sharp-eyed friend review your future drafts for punctuation glitches before you commit to them.
Third, because you deliberately chose a flat, journalistic style for this story, it occurred to me that interleaving the narrative with a few clips from "newspaper" stories about the Pathway Houses might have given the tale even more depth and horrific impact. I'm not saying they needed to be there; just that it's a motif you might consider for future stories stylistically akin to this one.
Fourth, at one point you spelled "medieval" as "midevil." That might have been deliberate, though, so I'll say no more about it.
On the whole, well done!
(review of free book)