Karen might not be able to review her own story but I can say it was amazing, there is a twist at the end that you will not see coming, in fact if you are like me you will actually think you know what is coming and be totally blindsided. This was one of my favourite stories in the anthology because it took us into uncomfortable places but kept you captivated so you couldn’t put it down.
As I am reviewing all the stories in this anthology, I can’t review mine, so instead, I will tell you little bit about it, and where it came from.
The whole tale evolved from a dream I had way back in the nineties. I was being forced to cross a river and was terrified I was going to drown. A nice guy, no idea who at that time, helped me overcome it and coaxed me to take the first steps to join the others on the opposite bank. I’m not scared of water, in fact just the opposite, I love it. So it probably came from something I saw or read.
At the time Yugoslavia was being broken up into what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,Macedonia,Montenegro,Serbia. Slobodan Milosevic was a politician and instigated the break-up of the country. He was continually in the news back…
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