The Grid

by Dennis Yates

A comedic re-imagining of the classic Hitchcock thriller film Rear Window.

Everyone's been guilty of it at least once. Who can resist glancing into a curtain-less window?

For one man the urge to look has become far worse. In fact, his obsession with spying on hotel guests across the street from his office is borderline pathological. And now someone is about to teach this Peeping-Tom a lesson he won't forget...

The Grid is the length of a short story (approximately 4,000 words).
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14 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 25, 2012

About the author

Dennis Yates is an American writer of novels and short stories. He is a native of Portland, Oregon and enjoys

thrillers, horror and suspense.

Dennis can be reached at yates.author@gmail.com.

Reviews

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this was an extremely quick read, it did pack quite a bit of emotion and turmoil into the story. It would have been nice to have a little more back story on The Grid and appreciate how it got to this point though.

There is definitely a twist at the end but I can't say it was totally unexpected. I could easily see this being the foundation for a full novel, but as a short story it still will get your heart racing and have you anxious to find out what happens.

[Margreet Nannenberg · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm totally disappointed by The Grid: it ended before it started. Leaves me behind with an unsatisfied feeling. A positive thing is that it started good, it builded up the excitement of oncoming suspense, but then it stopped. Just stopped!

[Naomi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The novella had hope until the end... I can think of many other was to end it.

[Elaine · Rating 5 out of 5]

It takes a writer with talent to be able to manage so much in so few pages. Great little story.