Soon, Howell, also Griffith’s love rival, meets an untimely death and from there things spiral downhill.Īlthough the plot is not wholly original (if I have any complaints, that would be it), the story is well written enough to keep me interested. They are cut off from civilization by virtue of their location and a hellish storm that bears down on them.
Written in the first person as a letter to Griffith’s loving wife, this short story is the accounting of the final days of two lighthouse keepers, Griffith and his co-worker, Howell. It’s a bold promise to the reader that all may not be as it seems, and Adil-Smith did not disappoint.
There is only one thing a proclamation like that can mean in a story like this: The character might have done it. From the very first line, “My Darling Wife - I did not do it,” I was intrigued. The Last Testament of Thomas Griffith” by Martin Adil-Smith is a brilliant little story set within the confines of a lighthouse.
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