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Nick Winney's avatar

great pace! nice touches with the fungus theme..but I'm crying because you wrote most of my novel before i got any where near with my fungus story! well done you.Good Job! 😎

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Rachael Varca's avatar

Thank you! But still, go ahead and write your idea. Nothing says it’s going to be executed the same way. Yours might have a happy or a sad ending, or incorporate completely different themes. Never let a similarity hold you back! How many different modern interpretations have there been of familiar fairytales? Are any of them less valid because they play with the same setup? Not all, and yours isn’t less either.

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Pamela Varchetto's avatar

Kept me hoping he could wriggle out of it. Very creepy - don’t think I could remain that calm.

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J. M. Allen's avatar

First: Ew.

Secondly: Very good job! It was creepy and viseral in all the right ways. Very reminiscent of Last of Us.

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Rachael Varca's avatar

Thank you so much for reading and commenting!

Horror is not a genre I write in, so I'm glad the ick and creep factor worked out! Also, I realized about a third of the way through writing it that it was similar to The Last of Us. It was partly inspired after thumbing through a copy of "The Botanical Daughter", though reviews weren't positive on that one.

If you're writing in the competition, good luck to you!

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J. M. Allen's avatar

Good luck to you, too!

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