A complete contrast to the last piece I reviewed, Ossicles is a complicated tumble of thoughts spewing from the imaginative eyes of a child. The speaker, a young girl, has just experienced her first loss of innocence in the wake of her father's cancerous death. The repetition of certain verbs and adjectives creates stress in the storyline that jolts the reader out of the plot. Although this may be written with intent, it detracts from the emotional turmoil that the protagonist is experiencing. In my opinion, the strongest part of this story is the choice to place conversations in columns side-by-side. Albeit a risky choice, Morril manages to create an illusion of balance and layers of noise that helps the story come to life.
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11/24/2014 10:10:27 am
I literally had to read this story about three times before I got a good understanding of Morill's reasoning behind the structure of both the writing itself, and the decision to place the dialogue in columns. I thought she did a fantastic job of physically creating a communication blockage through the background radio noise and setting up the lack of communication between Emily and her aunt and uncle through the columns.
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