Review of Vengeance by the Foot by Adam Light
5 stars
Well, I had all sorts of visuals from this title, but none
of them could match what author Adam Light does in this short piece. “Vengeance
by the Foot” indeed—I’m not certain I could call this “poetic justice,” more
like “some people just have all the bad luck.” Poor Grant: life certainly didn’t
turn out the way he hoped! There indeed are fates worse than death, and Grant
has discovered some of them.
Grant Stone, a happily married man in his late thirties,
develops gangrene in his left foot, after a cut he didn’t feel (numbness from
diabetes, we assume). Grant must undergo surgery and amputation, and in his
case, suffering is not good for the soul: he gets irritable, grumpy, very
difficult to live with—and his wife leaves him. Then something else, something
different, something on a mission, shows up in his home.
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