Angel Season by J.T. Petty
My rating: 4/5 cats
A small jar rests on one corner of the diamond-taped paper. It was once a spice jar, papery scraps remaining where the label was peeled away. Jeremy lifts and tilts it, shifting a thin layer of golden sand on the bottom of the jar, a ring’s worth of precious metal, filed into powder.
doing that short story advent calendar for my december project put some things into perspective for me. i’ve been putting a lot of pressure on myself unnecessarily when it comes to the way i review stuff on here. i have nearly 80 reviews pending, and about half of them are tor shorts, because i treat all reviews as equal, even if they are just teeny little things like the tor shorts. but that compulsion is a quality of the overachiever, and while i used to fall into that category, life has beaten me down to the point where i just don’t have the same reserves of energy i once had, and when i was doing that project last month, i discovered that just posting little bitty reactions to the stories was enough to quiet my inner crazyperson when it came to reviewing. so i’m going to go back and drop little bitty responses to all the tor shorts i still have to review, and then i can feel like at least a little of the self-imposed burden is off my plate. hail 2017! the year of justified review-laziness!
so, here is my little bitty piffle for this story:
i liked it.
hahah okay, i will give a little more.
this was an interesting one—it’s my beloved grit lit mixed with some paranormal elements as a father and son head out on a hunting trip where the quarry is…angels.
there’s some strong writing, the backstories are well-handled, and the descriptions come alive in a sharp and pointy way. a nice start to another year of weekly-tor-short explorations!
and i don’t feel overburdened yet at all!
read it for yourself here:
http://www.tor.com/2013/02/13/angel-s…
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