My Dear Pen Pals,
Thank you so much for your support! This story has been revised and submitted to a magazine for consideration.
Please keep your fingers crossed for acceptance and publication!!!
Thank you enormously for all of your feedback!
Until we meat again,
Maegan
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This is such a gripping story! And telling it through these two personalities is such a smart and effective way to do it. It eliminates the risk of using thought verbs, so all that action and description is forced onto the reader to experience themself. It pulls (polls?) the reader straight into it.
Really great. You set a high bar for the rest of us!
So, ever since I read this fantastic story, I find I can no longer run downstairs in socks and sandals, even though it’s faster than putting on shoes, even to just pick up a package, or delivery, even though probably the only person who’ll see me is the front desk girls (and they’re paid to treat every tenant like each of us is important and we aren’t a bunch of weirdos), even though I’m loved and adored by kids and a wife (whom presumably I don’t have to pretend to be cool enough for anymore), even though, even though...