Daniel Prillaman is a master of making the utterly mundane creepy AF. THE REMARKABLY UNREMARKABLE CRUCIFIXION OF EMMA REYNOLDS is just that! Prillaman has perfectly captured the exasperated tone of a teenage girl who is impressed by nothing, and then given her a story that is both completely run of the mill and impossibly beyond belief. It's the little details that makes this monologue so spot on: Being late for school, annoyed the surprise assembly, the weird reassurances from the magician!

Daniel’s usual fine work, similar to oh, say, George Saunders or Anton Chekhov writing about a woman being crucified as a SHORT STORY? That short story would be celebrated/hailed/assigned to future English classes so that students can write whole essays about the imagery, the themes and how the author accomplishes so much mastery in such a little space. And so it should be with Emma’s crucifixion. Remarkably Unremarkable? No. Remarkably remarkably unremarkable, which is in itself remarkable.

Dark, disturbing work. An impressive critique on bullying and the bystander effect!