Thursday, March 8, 2007

Mark Mycroft's "Bees"

This story was quite interesting. I thought that the characterization part of the story was great.I thought that I knew Kaddy pretty well before the action of the story began. I also thought the story itself started out pretty well. I liked hearing not only about Kadince but also about how Mark felt throughout the entire dialogue. I enjoyed how he compared himself to his coworker. I felt like I was on the long painful ride with them.
What I didn't like was mainly the inconsistencies of the story. At one point the author speaks about having stuck his hand through the wall of the trailer into a hornets nest. But throughout the rest of the story hornets are not mentioned, just bees. Also the title of the story was Bees. I thought that this distracted me as a reader from the point of the story, I was just busy trying to figure out whether it was bees or hornets. Another thing that was less distracting but should probably be changed was that there were several typos. This took a little a way from the story as well. Although typos are almost expected to happen, I found myself correcting them as I read the story.

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