Awarded 4 stars out of 5, "Children of the Cult", Independent Review
Awarded 4 stars out of 5, Aurora Mizutani's "Children of the Cult", Independent Review by Reedsy Discovery “Children of the Cult”, Aurora Mizutani’s latest anthology of short stories. In Children of the Cult, Aurora Mizutani breathes life into true stories, gathering them from across the world. The common thread that cuts across these stories is ‘cultism’, which Mizutani delves into in depth in the beginning. The first story, ESOTERISM IN MUNICH, exposes the devasting effect of cultism as experienced by Gianni, an Italian man living in Germany, where he meets his wife. In THE ROBBERY, the plan to rob a jewelry store is afoot, except there’s a newly installed alarm whose location only the store manager, Paul Carson, knows. In SAMANTHA, girls are held captive by a man named Yosef, subjected to the most inhuman conditions and what’s more, Josef is lining his pockets with cash at their expense. Who will save these girls? Plights of girls aside, there’s Mitsugu, a Japanese