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The creepiness and the overall writing were great! Really good and well-written story. Keep writing, fellow horror writer!

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Tara Maggiulli's avatar

You’re so creepy (positive.) I usually don’t care for horror for horror’s sake, and the way you added those deep rooted emotional stakes was so smart and deftly maneuvered. I read in a craft book about genre once that the root of horror is ultimately the battle of life vs death, and that the fear of non-existence is almost a religious one. You give real blood to Cory’s fears here: his fear of a “non-existence” of life without love, without money, without a chance at a future. Those fundamentally primal stakes are the key to this story breathing and I’m so glad to have read this

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