Review
by Christopher McGinley
by Christopher McGinleyChristopher McGinley takes a close look at A Therapeutic Death, the crime and thriller short story collection by J. B. Stevens.
Christopher McGinley takes a close look at , the crime and thriller short story collection by J. B. Stevens.
Army Captain Bart Eldridge is like so many characters in J. B. Stevens’ fine new collection of stories, A Therapeutic Death (Shotgun Honey, 2022). He’s a guy who’s trapped. In this case, he’s trapped in Iraq, fighting a war, with nothing to look forward to except maybe death. No one thinks of him anymore, at least not in the same ways they did when he first deployed. His girl’s written him a Dear John letter, he’s unnerved even by the Hollywood movies that used to entertain him, and his enemies try t
