Tsunami

by Brendan L. Verville

A man is with his family a few blocks near the beach when a massive tsunami hits and destroys everything. He can’t find his wife, his son or his daughter. The book is the quest that he goes through trying to find them amidst the national chaos. People starving, people hurt, rescue missions, hospitals, madness, and he is just on one single To find his family.

30 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 31, 2014

About the author

In his beginnings as a writer/illustrator of comics and short stories from an early age, Brendan gathered his inspiration and passion for sharing the reality of fantasy through the literary classics. Pursuing his love of storytelling, he has long pledged to build on the greater conversations of life. He has published his short fiction and poetry on Amazon Kindle, Fiction Vortex, and From the Depths, and he received a first place award in fiction for the Writes of Spring contest. His love for Victorian/modern literature and experimental/philosophical works has prolonged his bibliomania for hoarding books that have changed his life. On his down time, outside of his role as a copy editor, Brendan also has a history of writing coverage for scripts and novels for Hollywood agencies, co-organizing film festivals, and drawing and painting pictures for his own wall.

Reviews

[David Caldwell · Rating 2 out of 5]

After a tsunami hits Florida, a man desperately searches for his family in the aftermath.

I tried this short story only because I found it as a free download and it had several positive reviews. Here is the lesson I am taking away from this story. If a book only has 4 or 5 reviews and they are all top ratings, don't trust them. One of the reviews I read said the book had all of this explanations, charts and lists about tsunami. No it didn't. This is a 30 page short story and doesn't say much more about the tsunami than it happened because there was an earthquake off the coast.

My biggest problem with this story was that it kept introducing a thread to the storyline and then just dropping it a short time later. Nothing is really resolved. The story doesn't have an ending. It just stops (in mid-question in fact). It reads like the author had some good notions about what he wanted to write but didn't know how to execute them. The main character supposedly faces all of these great challenges when in reality everything happens fairly easily for him. Much easier than I believe would be the case if this in fact did happen.

The only reason I am giving this even a halfway decent rating is that it does have potential.

[Uncle Dave Avis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Could have been a good book, but it was a fairly good short story.