Hi, Nikola~Living the Dog Mom Life
This review is from Showering Acts of Joy.
I am pleased to offer my insight on this piece, but please remember that these are just my thoughts. Writing is an art unto itself, thus if anything I say contrasts with the art from within you, then please go with your thoughts rather than my thoughts, no harm done.
First Impression:
Apparently I'm either sadistic or masochistic, given that I'm a guy, and yet I still found myself laughing in delight at the vindictive and devious punishment. Make of that what you will. This is a well written piece of fiction, and indeed, you did take the prompt and go in an unexpected direction with it. Good for you.
The Good Points:
Noted, this is short fiction, but still you have managed to insert two real characters, a conflict, and a resolution as well as tying up the loose ends.
The little shop around the corner... Yes our town has one, and my wife spends way too much time browsing there... (cringe)
There wasn't an excess of depth, allowing the writing to float across my consciousness like a piece of candy, (brain candy?)
One final point for this section, the appropriate use of double meanings and second level jokes, "Nutcracker Pony" and such, well played.
Suggestions:
Only a couple of things here. First, I know this is a fantasy piece, and that it had to be short, but there's just a little too much "hand of God" interference happening, I attributed it to "magic" until the final bit about Colton and the necklace.
Second, there were just a couple of points where you've missed punctuation and grammar slips.
The first one I noticed was this line:
The necklace says that it wants to be with you. There is something else here you yet seek."
Missing the opening quotes.
Conclusion:
I liked this story. As I mentioned earlier, it was brain candy, and enjoyable at that. Keeping it short, and making it work, you've done well here given the nature of the prompt and where you went with it.
The only thing I might have done differently would be to add some depth to the middle of the story, make it stretch out just a little, let him have more rope to hang himself with as it were. But then again, maybe I am a sadist at heart...
Cheers
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