I'm a sucker for stories told in the 2nd person. I'm also a fan of urban legends (well, at Halloween anyway), so this week's story is just perfect. Oh, and it's also Canadian. Sweet.
"Fly in Your Eye" by David Nickel is a take on those old classics about the ant crawling into the guy's ear as he sleeps on the beach or the lady who always wore a bun in her hair which became home to a nest of cockroaches. But Nickel adds a nice touch with the 2nd person perspective, making our inner hypochondriacs all the louder. And though it was first published in 1997, it could also be seen as a play on the current bed bug mania. I listened to a piece on CBC Radio this summer about the resurgence of the mattress-sharing parasite and one of the theories proposed was that increased global travel may have played a part. After reading Nickel's "Fly in Your Eye" you'll hope bed bugs are the worse things you'll bring back the next time you go international.
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4 comments:
Oh! I don't think I can read this story. It seems a bit too creepy for me.
I also reviewed a creepy story this Monday: http://emeire.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/when-the-door-…y-alison-moore/
Em
Sounds like a great story. I'll definitely be reading it.
This week I went for something a bit older.
http://loniseye.blogspot.com/2010/10/poker-game-by-stephen-crane.html
I don't think I would care for this story much. LOL!
Mine is also by a Canadian author:http://teddyrose.blogspot.com/2010/10/do-not-touch-by-billie-livingston.html
I've been travelling increasingly more often lately so naturally I am terrified of bringing home bed bugs. How can I resist this story?
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