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Member Since: Oct. 14, 2013

Ashley Chappell

Coffee (a short story) on Oct. 14, 2013

Brilliant! I started reading Coffee and was instantly drawn in by the tone of the writing. A line in the very first paragraph describing the endless crime show spinoffs told me I was going to love the whole story: "It's like watching one long stream of suits nodding furtively at one another." YES! This story felt like a modern day noir with a definite Hitchcock twist - you can feel the paranoia of the MC grow with every paragraph and I love the writer's decision to leave the MC unnamed. It somehow puts the reader more firmly in the driver's seat, and when the destination is a a psychological trip like this one that is always a win :-)