Robert Day’s Reviews > The Rag, Issue 5: Winter/Spring 2013 > Status Update

Olivia
is an Eeek! story about the joys of plastic surgery that had me waiting for a twist at every turn, in fact I was waiting for anything to happen beyond a description of the procedures. Hmm.

The Girl with Pretension in her Hair is a very short thing (vignette?) about.. actually the title tells you everything there is to know. I enjoyed what there was but longed for something to happen.

Digital Desert Camouflage is a poem and I think it is about War Veterans. That's it.

Cats as the Meaning of Life is probably about cats but might as well be about Mars for all I understand it.

Vibrancy is about a love out of time and a time out of life (two threads). Most of these stories are about people caught up on the path to something illegal. This is too.

Zeke Stargazing is a gruesome little horror story about diabetes and a dog, and I don't recommend you read this while you're eating.

Passing Through I enjoyed for the characters and the dialogue and the descriptions, but I got frustrated by the lack of a story or a plot and ultimately I didn't really get it aside from as a series of scenes sewn together.

Citizen of Megabus is two pages of prose and actually, I get it. The words tell of an experience within my world and I'm happy to be there.

The Queue (at the Supermarket) fooled me into thinking it was the start of a very deep story that a didn't get but when it ended 2 pages in I suspected poetry and that explained everything.

The Man Who Wouldn't Jump is about missed opportunities and the consequences thereof. I love the poignancy of this story and even though it depressed the heck out of me, it was good.