A review by fourtriplezed
Apex Magazine Issue 105 by Jason Sizemore

5.0

This isn’t how it is meant to be. I awake without the alarm, it is dark and it is raining heavily. I wander downstairs and make coffee and decide to read a few reviews and then get a few pages in of my present book before heading on the insufferable freeway to go to work. Thunder starts and I check the radar. There is rain aplenty.

I sip the coffee and the first review is of this short story. It seems promising, so I hit the link offered and read along with the audio. I have never done that before, I think to myself.

About 40 minutes later, a clap of thunder roars over head as I read/listen to the last line. Timing is everything, I suppose. My coffee has gone cold. It is still raining.

Merged review:

This isn’t how it is meant to be. I awake without the alarm, it is dark and it is raining heavily. I wander downstairs and make coffee and decide to read a few reviews and then get a few pages in of my present book before heading on the insufferable freeway to go to work. Thunder starts and I check the radar. There is rain aplenty.

I sip the coffee and the first review is of this short story. It seems promising, so I hit the link offered and read along with the audio. I have never done that before, I think to myself.

About 40 minutes later, a clap of thunder roars over head as I read/listen to the last line. Timing is everything, I suppose. My coffee has gone cold. It is still raining.