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vena cava: an inferior novelette
James Halbeck was enjoying a normal day with his daughter, recently home from college, when she dies in a seemingly impossible way. Moments later, a mysterious man shows up in his house with a simple tradeoff.
The man can tell James how she died--for a price.
vena cava is the first work of a new short story experiment from Mikey Neumann. The entire story is self-contained in this collected work after the runaway success vena cava received after its online publication.
The man can tell James how she died--for a price.
vena cava is the first work of a new short story experiment from Mikey Neumann. The entire story is self-contained in this collected work after the runaway success vena cava received after its online publication.
- GenresScience Fiction
47 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 2, 2013
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November 27, 2017
An interesting short story with a clever ending. Definitely worth the one or two dollar price.
January 10, 2017
I discovered this little story through Mikey Neumann's Movies with Mikey Youtube series, which I very highly recommend. Go watch it now.
Given the humour in those videos, and the humor in Borderlands and Borderlands 2 which he also wrote, I expected something more like David Wong or Palahniuk.
This was not that.
What it turned out to be was a rather predictable short story filled with not very interesting characters. Attempts at showing fatherly love weren't especially touching or affecting and I sort of hated the three college girls.
I was let down.
Guess I'll stick with Mikey's reviews.
Given the humour in those videos, and the humor in Borderlands and Borderlands 2 which he also wrote, I expected something more like David Wong or Palahniuk.
This was not that.
What it turned out to be was a rather predictable short story filled with not very interesting characters. Attempts at showing fatherly love weren't especially touching or affecting and I sort of hated the three college girls.
I was let down.
Guess I'll stick with Mikey's reviews.
November 4, 2014
As someone who often has difficulty with the density of hard science fiction, at first glance I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get into Vena Cava. However, I was sucked in immediately and thoroughly enjoyed the story. Not all questions posed in this tale are answered by the end, but I did find the conclusion emotionally satisfying. I can't wait to read more of Mikey's fiction.
December 10, 2013
One star for sucking me in.
One star for making me laugh amid the horror.
One star for letting me catch my breath.
One star for grabbing me again and not letting go.
One star for the ending. (NO SPOILERS!)
One star for making me laugh amid the horror.
One star for letting me catch my breath.
One star for grabbing me again and not letting go.
One star for the ending. (NO SPOILERS!)
January 18, 2014
Short and nasty, just how I like my horror-ish/sci-fi-ish stories.
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