wow, amazing. a deeply brutal read. after i reached the end i went back and read through all the stories again… feeling it all click together horribly. really great work.
i think this also used the medium really well- little touches like the way you styled hellen’s text (and when it lost that stylization), the different colored text in the novel narration… it’s a simple presentation with a great deal of polish.
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you’ve truly performed an amazing feat to get me to hate the student as much as the teacher in this scenario. the end scene where they’re both remembering their idealized chrys… even with their dueling narratives we’ll never know what she was thinking. why she took her own life, how she felt about these two women… it’s so heartbreaking.
i also loved the way you depicted stephanie unraveling, the way she described herself and all her movements until they were out of her control… i don’t know if we ever reached something real inside. thank you for sharing.