Gaming

Ayana (short story written by Stephen King)

(Short story written by Stephen King)

For a short story, we are dealing with many character names to remember. Consequently, this requires a lot of work and concentration, is it worth the story? Good question. Compared to “Harvey’s Dream” and “The New York Times …” along with “Rest Stop”, it is a little better written, although the ending of “Rest Stop” is well above the ending of “Alana”.

In “Ayana” he only curses once, thank goodness, every time someone does it in these so-called modern stories, he smells like he has a bad vocabulary (the author, not the character), like the author can’t ‘t find a good replacement for limited expressions. Anyway, this is my fourth review and fourth short story of the book: “Just After Sunset”, from which I have read about Mr. King. It is better written than the previous three – I repeat – and it has good descriptions, a good explanation, the construction of the subject is good, it is kept in its proper verb tenses; shows the desperation of getting old, his similes are good for once, in the last three stories it would have been better to drop them. I actually found a bit of flair in this story, believe it or not, although it took it from Sherwood Anderson, but as Hemingway once said: you can take, only if you can make it better. Maybe he didn’t need much dialogue in this story either, because it’s not there, as he used an informative rather than an involved narrative, which is always lacking in adjectives. There is not much suspense in this as there was in “Rest Stop”.

Actually, the ending was a bit flat in “Ayana”, but we can’t all find dynamic endings every time, now we can. I guess the story is good enough, although I didn’t nominate it for a Blue Ribbon. It’s not a great story, but I repeat again, the aging dilemma that we all face is the thread that holds the story together for me.

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