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Step Right Up!  [E]
March 2018: Tweet Me a Story
by Genipher
Review of Step Right Up!  
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Rated: E | (4.5)
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Dear Genipher ,

This is the kind of writing I find difficult yet intriguing, especially how this abbreviated short fiction speaks to me. I find this "Tweet Me A Story" activity/concept to be especially challenging, since the days of the Social Media Forum Formally Known As Twitter, replaced by the symbol X, when it only allowed 140 characters.

Most Tweeters back in the day were composing and pumping out short poems, but here I find a short fiction attempt...not even fifty words. That first line as hook, had to be good, considering the sci-fi genre tagged, and it had me hooked, considering the possibilities.

Conceptually, this is akin to the TV series Twilight Zone, rooted in the every day life, everything we know human, sort of a comic trope. That's why I'm given pause...have to think...what's in those bags, right? And, considering the attached icon on your static's masthead, outer planetary, can one infer and imply aliens, beings outside our solar system?

The next two lines could be as average as everyday conversation, but with that introduction, these lines become loaded with arrows of possibility where they story could go from there. And that's the allure of a short piece. It becomes a thinker, subjective to the tastes of the reader and imagination.

A reader can apply anything they want to visualize the scenario about to play out. In fact, this can serve as words uttered from a single-panel cartoon strip, thinking of one guy awhile back whose name I can't quite grasp, seeing humans either begging for freedom, or possibly not to be won, inside those bags the green aliens consider.

It was fun visiting this short write. I feel if a person attempted to go longer, it would lose its luster or appeal. But, if you were considering an adolescent young reader type of fiction, this could be an R.L. Stein-style introduction to 90-120 pages of a strange fictional experience, from multiple perspectives, given the human and the aliens as two character types.

I just stumbled into this while trying to keep my daily review streak alive, in my own plastic bag, while clicking on items popping up on the read and review link. I passed up a lot of stuff before landing here. Worth it. Thanks for sharing

Brian
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