What do you think of "Pizza Face" in "The Lit
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:08 am
Did anyone read the short story "Pizza Face"?
If so, any thoughts on it?
If so, any thoughts on it?
Especially considering that it is offered free on line. Makes me wonder if anyone here really reads it./?
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That being said-------
Being involved with the publication, I usually read it from start to finish and try not to comment on articles.
I usually wait for the hard copy before plunging for a read.
While waiting for a friend at a local restaurant, who I was to meet for lunch, I popped out my copy of the hatchet and looked for a short piece to read. I came across Pizza Face.
Pizza Face by Denise Noe was cultured just for this magazine, or one would think so. It is just the sort of piece I would love to see more of in the Literary Hatchet.
In many respects a Story Line carries a great deal in a piece of writing. At times too much respect is given to the way a piece is worded. After all, writing a story is all about the telling of the yarn. You can pepper it all you want with fancy lexicons, phraseology and versatile vocabulary, but in the end it is a good story which carries a good piece.
With Pizza Face, the story starts off normally. Some of us can even relate to the young main character, a young boy named Martinez. One of the best ways of hooking the reader is to invent a character which we can relate to, or one where we can place ourselves in the protagonist's shoes.
Towards the end, Pizza Face begins to twist and germinate, gradually becoming a little curious and confusing......but in a good way. Then at the absolute end it becomes clear, bizarre and............well freaky.
Pizza Face was an excellent little read. A piece like this carries the theme of the magazine and lives up to the eerie, sinister complexion of the Literary Hatchet's trade mark "Face" covers.
Read Pizza Face.
It's a story you will absolutely love or one who's ending will make you cringe and barf. Either way it delivers.
