If you
have read any of author CS DeWildt’s work, you know that there will be dark
times and maybe some humor. No humor is present all in his short
story, Corbin’s Dreams Take Flight: A Short Story. There is plenty of
darkness and pain.
Corbin
Rutherford Scaggs broke his wrist when he fell of the roof of the single wide
trailer he shared with his mom and his older brother, Tommy. That break
resulted in five pins and a titanium plate by way of a surgeon who also wrote
him a script for Percocet. His brother took off again and this time took Corbin’s
pain meds. If he had just left a few
days earlier, Corbin never would have been on the roof in the first place and
therefore the fall would never have happened. He waited a month before moving into Tommy’s
old bedroom.
Part of that
move requires Corbin washing the sheets for the bed. That process is
interrupted by Janie Myers inviting him outside to see what is going on. The
Davis brothers are, like the up and coming sociopaths they are, torturing a
small create. In this case, a pigeon that is now permanently blind and missing
a beak among other numerous injuries.
A brutalized
pigeon that Corbin intends to save in Corbin’s Dreams Take Flight. The
steps he takes and how that is accomplished is the focus in a dark tale that
does not end in the way one would expect. It is also a very disturbing one.
Corbin’s Dreams Take
Flight is certainly not for everyone. Especially if violence against
animals and birds bother you as the bird has a very hard go of it before and
after the rescue by Corbin. Well written, this is not a tale that makes you
feel good about anyone. Unlike his recently published short story, The
Louisville Problem, there is no mystery at work here. Other than
how do folks end up like this as adults are not present and are only vaguely
referred to a couple of times. Once could make an argument that this tale has
links to the Lord of the Flies albeit on a much smaller scale.
A slice of life
style piece set across a few weeks, Corbin’s Dreams Take Flight: A Short Story is
one of the toughest things I have read in a very long time. While it may be
only thirteen pages long, this is a tale that hits with the power of a
sledgehammer upside the head.
Corbin’s Dreams Take Flight: A Short Story
CS DeWildt
Ugly Dad Books
August 2018
ASIN: B07GPQ2BD
eBook (paperback available)
13 Pages
$0.99
Material was picked
up using finds in my Amazon Associate Account in order to read and review.
Kevin R. Tipple
©2018
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