Short and bittersweet

October 7, 2008by Gavin Williams

"Marcasite Waves" contains short little vignettes.  One is a short story with no dialogue, while another is entirely dialogue (apparently between a therapist and patient) and no scenery or narrative.  There’s poetry as well.  The overall tone of the entire site is melancholic, as the pieces deal with hauntings, loneliness, and the paranormal.  If you like spooky atmosphere, it’s worth checking out.

I’m not personally a big fan of short stories, I like longer narratives.  But these manage to give you things to wonder about as you go along, maintaining some interest.  I find the author’s style a little slow going, often rambling unnecessarily through sentences and paragraphs.  At first I thought it was one narrator’s particular "voice," as though absentminded, but the same is true of the other stories I’ve looked at. 

All in all, I’d like to see what this writer could do with a bigger project, instead of just snapshots of their creativity.

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