(Short story written by Stephen King)

For a short story, we’re dealing with a lot of character names to remember. Consequently, this requires a lot of work and concentration, is the story worth it? Good question. Compared to “Harvey’s Dream” and “The New York Times…” along with “Rest Stop”, it is slightly better written, although the ending of “Rest Stop” is way above the ending of “Alana”.

In “Ayana” she only swears once, thank God, every time someone does it in these so-called modern stories, it smells like she has a bad vocabulary (the author, not the character), like the author can’t. t find a good replacement-limited expressions. Anyway, this is my fourth review and fourth short story of the book: “Just After Sunset”, which I have read about Mr. King’s. It is better written than the previous three -I repeat- and it has good descriptions, good explanation, good construction of the theme, it stays in its own times; shows the hopelessness of growing old, his similes are good for once, in the last three stories it would have been better to leave them. I actually found a bit of flair in this story, believe it or not, although he took it from Sherwood Anderson, but as Hemingway once said: you can take, only if you can do better. Perhaps he did not need much dialogue in this story either, because it is not there, since he used a narration more of a reportage than an implication, which always lacks adjectives. There isn’t as much suspense in this as there was in “Rest Stop”.

Actually, the ending was a bit flat in “Ayana”, but not all of us can find dynamic endings every time, now we can. I guess the story is pretty good, although I didn’t get it nominated for a Blue Ribbon. It’s not a great story, but I repeat once again, the dilemma of aging that we all face is the thread that holds the story together for me.