love how there's almost no exposition just hints mingled in the dialogue that paint the picture out as the story goes along.
read it twice...still not quite grasping everything you're telling us about the scenario and back story but the flavour of it all, the grisly gist of it...clear enough!
good to read some of your work Thaddeus. Been a while!
Are you kidding? Thats a near perfect opening. You didn’t treat me as a reader like I had to be spoon-fed a damned thing. I intensely wanted to know what the situation is and that makes the words fly by. The dialogue is absolutely spot on, too.
That was a trip! I liked the ambiguity in your story between who’s eating who, who’s rotting and who’s not, whether this town is hell or a happy place, and the looming specter of unnamed creatures fracturing the world. Lots to ponder.
Very nice construction of mood. Burning the disease. It's what they tried to do during the Black Plague; get rid of the cause and, knowing they would infect others chose to stay with their families. There's such an aura of inevitability --they'll die, but they'll haunt us. As for those who decide eat carrion, they turn intro monsters. But the saddest of all is the hopelessness that steals childhood.
Still one of the best writers here.
Such kindness.
Not really
that was relentless.
love how there's almost no exposition just hints mingled in the dialogue that paint the picture out as the story goes along.
read it twice...still not quite grasping everything you're telling us about the scenario and back story but the flavour of it all, the grisly gist of it...clear enough!
good to read some of your work Thaddeus. Been a while!
Thank you so much!
Still got it.
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This is amazing!
Grins! That means a great deal coming from you.
Are you kidding? Thats a near perfect opening. You didn’t treat me as a reader like I had to be spoon-fed a damned thing. I intensely wanted to know what the situation is and that makes the words fly by. The dialogue is absolutely spot on, too.
Substack town (jk)
Excellent.
That was a trip! I liked the ambiguity in your story between who’s eating who, who’s rotting and who’s not, whether this town is hell or a happy place, and the looming specter of unnamed creatures fracturing the world. Lots to ponder.
I appreciate that!
The heavy atmosphere is on point. Haunting.
Thank you!
That was dark! So well done. I liked the ambiguity.
Dark line the deep of winter. Hello my friend
I appreciate the fade out from the boys dialogue to the man's internal thoughts before snapping back to reality. Really effective writing!
I'm glad that worked!
Very nice construction of mood. Burning the disease. It's what they tried to do during the Black Plague; get rid of the cause and, knowing they would infect others chose to stay with their families. There's such an aura of inevitability --they'll die, but they'll haunt us. As for those who decide eat carrion, they turn intro monsters. But the saddest of all is the hopelessness that steals childhood.
welcome back ❤️🩹