Electric Blue is a short story by Deanna Riddell
that totally hooked me with its synopsis.
Tragically, fifteen year old Jake disappeared one evening on a trip to
the grocery on his electric blue bicycle and never returned. Six years pass and we join the story on his younger
sister Sara’s fifteenth Birthday. Their
parents have never stopped waiting for Jake to come home. The strangeness of the situation isolates
Sara from her friends.
Sara
receives an unexpected Birthday card in the mail. There you have the synopsis that made me
think I was about to get some traditional Bradbury or Matheson horror. That is not what happened.
Turns out,
the synopsis is the whole story except for the unrewarding, lack luster, imagination free ending. I’m not one to focus on writing
mechanics because an engaged reader will overlook and forgive many
mistakes. However, for a story this
short editing was very poor.
Electric
Blue gets a body with a butter knife cut on throat. Pretty soon the guy will get up and walk away. You should too. .
Heads Will
Roll,
Everette
Bell
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