Its not often that I read just for readings sake anymore. With kids, wife, house, work, etc the lighter pursuits seem to fade away like water from your lips on a hot day-cool and refreshing, then gone; evaporated into a pale, dry synomym of itself with just its fleeting promise of relief passed in the face of a relentless summer sun.
Yikes.
This anthology has a short story in it by Gary Braunbeck calls "Safe". Truly disturbing and yet sad and telling-reminding you that you are a hairs bredth away from any of the main characters, including the dead. It's a story about how a town tries to cope and understand a mass murder. It is told through the eyes of a relative of the murderer who was saved in the melee and how he is dealing with the reprucussions of the event years later while discussing a recent similar event with his High School students. It is an emotionally wrenching piece and is still reverberating-it reminds me a little of some of King's earlier short works like Shawshank-though the subject matter is more topically relevent for today.
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