A book's first review is always a welcomed event, especially when that review comes from a writer of distinctive short stories like Jason E. Rolfe.
"It’s my opinion that at any one time there are countless writers writing countless versions of the exact same story. Regardless the reason, this sameness often comes at the cost of a writer’s true creativity. Said another way, writers often sacrifice what they really want to say and how they truly want to say it to the false god Sameness. I think that is why the writers I most admire stand out. They dare to be different, to be unique. They write exactly what they want to write, how they want to write it and sameness be damned! They experiment and in doing so they become closer to who they are meant to be as writers. Why is that? Perhaps it’s because they are writing for themselves rather than for the expectations of genre or the average reader. It’s been my experience that the writers who write for themselves are the ones who ought to be read most by us. Mark Fuller Dillon is no exception.
"Mark wrote Doorways Unforeseen because it was in him to write. He wrote it the way he did, in iambic pentameter, because that is exactly what he wanted to do. It sounds simple, but it isn’t. It’s actually difficult and quite gutsy. Of course, as is Mark’s habit, he wrote each word, each poetic phrase with the careful precision of a master craftsman. Like an Oulipian working within the confines of constraint he has managed to tell us truly terrifying tales. "They Collect," and "A Flimsy Vinyl Door" in particular left me (and leave me still) both genuinely unsettled as a reader, and envious as a writer for whom poetry has remained an ever elusive talent. Rest assured that poetry has not eluded Mark Fuller Dillon."
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