The Hand By Omar Zahzah

[Robert_Moriyama]

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= "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"

[Robert_Moriyama]

Well ... it certainly qualifies as dark and disturbing. I expected it to go someplace, but it never went ... it just ended. I wish the author had done more with it, because the unusual perspective was good.

In my correspondence with the author, I noted the twist -- the "evil hand" plot thwarted by the ego and vanity of the transplant recipient. Haunted hand 0, Me Generation 1.

[Lester Curtis]

I think it might have been better without all the many repetitions of "If I were conscious . . . " They only serve to remind that the narrator isn't conscious, and therefor shouldn't be narrating anything.

The ending was unsatisfying, too; the 'host' defeated the evil transplant by simply neglecting it to death. Where's the struggle in that?