Review
"Josie" opens in the morning where a family prepares for the day. The family eats breakfast, then breaks for the day, the father heading to work, and the mother and children heading to the Smithson's. The mother finds her husband has left his roster at home and decides to make a pit stop at the fathers work and drop off the clipboard. While en route to the school, the mother makes a phone call to the husband, during which the mother and children are struck by another car. The husband hears everything and rushes to the scene only to find out Josie has died.
Critique
This was an intense story of loss. One of my favorite yet ultimately the more serious excerpt from the story is when Jayme is on the phone with Kyle. I feel the writer did a good job on creating a real time tension, with the way Jayme is cut off by the accident. The sentences following, "Probably about like-" are where I feel most of the tension occurs with the description of the car accident. One incident that confused me in the story was when Jayme was getting ready to take her children to the park. After stating the family was going to the park, the authors writes how the Smithson's live on a lake, so Jayme was to pack bread to feed the geese. After reading that part, I was unsure where the family was going. However, the author did clarify the Smithson's lived by the park later in the story.
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