Write Mind, Football and Sea Me...

                                        

                           Football

                     Summer ends football begins. Seven days in

                     a week. Seven points with a touchdown and

                     extra point. Two world wars. Two points for

                     a safety. Tragedy in war. Sudden death. 

                    Politicians everywhere plotting battles and 

                    wars. The offense huddled far back from the 

                    ears of the defense. 

                    Ground troops or air strikes? Run or pass?

                    Who strikes first? Flip a coin.

                                                                         Izzy Schurr

                                    

                                                     Sea Me

                     The kiss of the colliding waves. Rippled sand

                     decorates the cusp of a low tide. Aluminous

                     moonlight radiating lacquered night beading

                     off the brilliant stars. The warmth of a pitted

                     fire thrust itself against my body. 

                    Tall red and yellow flames swallowing mother

                    night, which has caressed me with her dark

                    embrace.                                Izzy Schurr

Write Mind

No desk or lap top. Eagar imagination spins. No 

pin, insanity seeps in. Lunatic fury fuels frustration.

Remember that phrase! Hold that thought!

Indeed, dying is easy, comedy is hard.  Izzy Schurr / Neil Peart / ?

Debut Novel Reviver is a Disaster

“Reviver Death Won’t Silence Them,” is a rotten read.

First time novelist Seth Patrick thrusts a fantastic idea into the realms of ruin, complete with dull characters, a listless storyline and a clumsy climax.  

“Reviver Death Won’t Silence Them” starts out with a solid punch; supernatural beings in the natural world helping the police solve murder cases. The U.S. has a Forensic Revival Service and one of its best revivers. Revivers can bring the dead back to life, but only for a few minutes. People who work for the FRS, such as Jonah Miller, the best in the business, talk to murder victims to find their killers.

The one and only thing I liked about this book was its mention of the corruption in the medical industry. Although the story is fiction, murder victims with low-income family members get the lowest paid revivers who only have a ten percent track record of reviving their victims to uncover legal facts for the police. 

One of the many flaws in this book was the lack of symphony generated for any of the victims. Since the character development was mostly non-existent, only 9-year-old Nikki Woods was the only murder victim I felt sympathy for. All the other characters were like glancing at an obituary column of a complete stranger who died of natural causes. 

The possibility that the Devil and his demons would end the human race and take over the planet, still could not save the crappy climax of “Reviver.” The main villain in the June release of this book, Michael Andreas was as interesting as a pebble I dumped out of one of my shoes that same month.