Sandkings

I found the story Sandkings to be extremely disturbing, yet impossible to put down. At the beginning of the story I did not understand what was going on as he was naming strange pets, but the story only got stranger. When Wo first explained the Sandkings to Kress I thought that their abilities were interesting, that they create and live in their own complex community and have their own rulers. Their ability to worship and create intricate portraits out of sand on their castles was another thing that I found intersting. After that, the story took a strange turn. Kress became obsessed with creating wars between the Sandkings and became an evil god to them. What he failed to realize was that they hated him. They expressed this hatred in subtle changes in the scupltures of his face. I found it interesting that they changed the likness of his face with the way that they percieved him. They gave him an evil look because he was starving them and killing them. I thought it was stupid of Kress to kill Cath in the first place, but then he became a killing machine. It was disgusting to me that he kept feeding his friends to the Sandkings. It seemed as if the Sandkings were doing to him what he did to them, they left him caged up in the house without any food and forced him to go crazy. In the end, his cruelty was avenged when he was ultimatly killed by what he thought were the weak Sandkings.