MESSIAH COMPLEX - Tecno-Libro

From the moment i began reading Michael Olin-Hitt s recent collection of short stories, Messiah Complex and Other Stories, i was immediately reminded of the moment i discovered the stories of Raymond Carver. There is an immediate comfort with the conversational rhythm of the story telling. i found myself listening to some of these characters like i listened to Holden Caulfield. . . . .These stories end pitch-perfectly. Our lives are comprised of loose ends, and Olin-Hitt s stories, while certainly take place in this tangle, are extracted in a near surgical manner, finishing in decisive moments. After reading this collection in one sitting, i recalled the words of Charles Lindbergh: Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, as indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter, . . .These stories, in the hands of other writers, might end muddied by too much mucking