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Title: How to Make a Short Story into a Novel
Review: While not poorly written, the character development is thin and irrelevant emphasizing a sense of dread at the expense of empathy. For some reason the author drives us down a single path with a predictable outcome effectively removing any sense of tension. I stayed with the story convinced that Smith would be artful enough to introduce some twist to justify the popular critical reviews. Unfortunately the story comes across with all the excitement and interest of a terminal tooth ache.
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