Wildlife

This is a very good and creepy short story but I would've preferred a clearer ending. I guess it's meant to be open to interpretation. I've never read anything by this author before and I think I like his style, especially the extremely sympathetic but flawed main character.

It's funny because everything in this story screams “this is happening in Florida!!” and I don't think the location is given.

This is part of Amazon's Trespass Collection. Similar in styling to the Forward Collection I just finished. I wanted to give this one a go because of the author. I haven't read him before, but I own the Southern Reach series and wanted a starting point with him. This is available through Prime Reading on Kindle or Audible for free. 
Recently cleared of murder, Sam moves into her father's old house after her marriage ends. A falling tree sparks a feud between neighbors. Who's watching who, and who's doing what? I had a little trouble connecting point A to point B here honestly. A little dry, a little confusing, and overall lacking something for me to connect to. 
Maybe just not for me. Personally a 2/5*. Not sure if I'll continue with this collection. 

This story was sometimes confusing, especially the ending, but I still liked it.  Sam and her guilt and problems with her property and neighbor Zanth were weird but still intriguing. Her obsession with nature was understandable at the end.

I liked the quotes
“The way they always said eyewitnesses' accounts should be treated with suspicion, that the brain reconstructed what it couldn't remember-in other words, the brain lied. To itself and others. You couldn't trust a brain any more than you could trust a soul.”

 “...what if she could walk through the darkness and back into the moment when she'd made that decision, what if she could find herself there again, and do something different?”