Honestly, “The Indigo Room” I swear reminds me a bit of some stories I read in a book when I was a kid. This will drive me up the wall later. But in essence, this short story deals with [redacted] and the horror it can bring. That worked for me somewhat, but the story just dragged weirdly in places and I thought that SGJ could have went a bit further with that ending. It made me think of the short story written by Ted Chiang (have fun thinking which one) and I wished he had went darker with this one. I don’t know. It just didn’t hit me the same way as some of the other stories did.
“The Indigo Room” follows a woman named Jennifer being bored to death during a presentation when something goes topsy turvy, all of a sudden she seems some of her colleagues talking to her, but they are missing parts of themselves. Jennifer doesn’t know what this means or what to do, but when a senior management official shows up at the office, along with her ex dropping off their son, Jennifer wonders if she’s just having an extremely bad day.
So for me, I wanted more about Jennifer. I think that SGJ drops little things in the story, but I was often going what is this about? Is this important? And of course it is, but it plays into the overall story of the office setting and her upset weirdly. I don’t know if I am explaining it right, but I think for me, if the setting had been anything else maybe it would have worked more. Maybe at a school, hospital, party, wedding, etc.
In the end for me the story dragged which I always see as a bad sign during a short story.