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A review by dnemec
You Only Get One Shot by Kevin J. Kennedy, J.C. Michael
3.0
Four authors are required to write a story to atone for a sin in their past. They all receive the same email demanding that they write a story by 8pm that evening. The author of the best of the 4 gets to live. The rest…
The reader is grabbed immediately, drawn into “her” pain and anger (whomever “she” may be). What follows are 4 stories written for the author’s lives. Finally, after all 4 stories are written and posted per the email's instructions, the authors are "notified" of the results. An interesting premise and some good stories.
My favorite of the lot was Fiona’s Story: The Wrong Girl. It is so very aptly named. A group of thugs kidnap a young girl and they chose rather poorly. The tension slowly builds and builds. At one point while tracking her down, the girl’s father thinks: “They really don’t know who they are fucking with.” Indeed, they didn’t. If I were judge & jury, Fiona would live!
The reader is grabbed immediately, drawn into “her” pain and anger (whomever “she” may be). What follows are 4 stories written for the author’s lives. Finally, after all 4 stories are written and posted per the email's instructions, the authors are "notified" of the results. An interesting premise and some good stories.
My favorite of the lot was Fiona’s Story: The Wrong Girl. It is so very aptly named. A group of thugs kidnap a young girl and they chose rather poorly. The tension slowly builds and builds. At one point while tracking her down, the girl’s father thinks: “They really don’t know who they are fucking with.” Indeed, they didn’t. If I were judge & jury, Fiona would live!