The Refugees

This is certainly the most relevant story I've read so far. It's a fairly obvious parallel to the Syrian issue going on in the West right now, but it presents itself in a pleasant way. The prose is very solid. Nothing awe inspiring, but it flows well and helped draw me into the narrative.

The ideas were good as well. The parallel to modern events was brutally obvious, but that didn't matter. Masking the situation in a sci-fi veneer was a nice touch, and I felt the writing itself could easily find its way into the pages of a paying literary magazine without much effort. There really isn't much more for me to say about it than that.

In Summary: Recommended.

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[Like] The World Is Ending

Formatting brilliance aside, this was a funny read. Even when faced with the end of the world, the social media express still manages to miss the forest for the trees, focusing more on their social status and the like than the real issues at hand. This was a witty commentary on our modern society, and I loved every moment of it.

There were a few noticeable issues in it, most notably the mistaken use of its and it's. Some of the lines felt a little bit awkward, though that's fairly much a given when reading through media posts by a variety of people.

Candy Schmidt's line at the end was by far the strongest. The world's ending, everyone has skewed priorities, and someone gets the brilliant idea of advertising sex pills. After all, what better time is there to buy Viagra than right before the world ends? A good read overall and worth your time.

In Summary: Recommended.