The Losing of Mr Brooks

For this weeks reading I chose to read the Losing of Mr Brooks. It is a short story that I found online. The story is about a woman and her husband. It starts out with Mrs. Brooks in the hospital the doctors told her that her husband has been "lost". Then the story goes back to tell us why he has been "lost". It starts out on a saturday when mr and mrs brooks are outside gardening. Mr brooks goes to his garden shed to get something and then decides its very dirty. Him and mrs brooks decided that it will be cleaned later on that day. Mr. brooks isnt a clumsy man but as he is leaving the shed he falls and breaks his leg. He is taken to the hospital and the thats when the weirdness begins. As he is laying in his hospital bed he opens his eyes and sees someone/ something standing over him and he realizes it isnt human so he thinks he is hallucinating. Then the thing above him begins to talk and it introduces its self and Brein the Elf Guardian. Brein has a bunch of little dust pixies that are with him and they tell mr brooks that he has to promise not to clean them up or to tell anyone about what he has seen or else Brein will turn mr brooks into a spider. mr brooks doesnt agree to these terms and is turned into a spider. After mrs brooks goes home she starts cleaning for a sort of therapy and ends up seeing a spider and killing it. The spider turns out to be mr. brooks. I really enjoyed this short story i think it was put together very well. I feel like its hard to write a good short story because there isnt alot of time to tell a story .. in a short story but this one was very well put together and i would recommend it.