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RE: Between the Lines: A Fifty Word Story
Greetings, @bex.dk
It was creepy. Books are supposed to be good, and yet, there are so many mysteries surrounding some books and their efect of those who read them.
This one strikes the cord of the supernatural, the invocation of magical creatures who dupe the weaklings and steal body and/or soul.
But do we know it isn't good? Maybe Emma is happier now than she ever was in her real life. Sure, it's possible something bad has happened--I left that open--but she might have been depressed and felt out of place in her world.
Of course, that is always a possibility. That's the problem with 50-word stories. Little room to tell/suggest more. I got the negative idea of her disappearance from fainting of the mother, the labeling of the book as creepy, the described emptiness (all inidcations that she was either loved or missed).
Yup. The mother's perspective definitely does that. But how often do we hide our struggles from our parents? Clearly her disappearance is traumatic for her mother, but you have to decide for yourself if you see it as a negative for her. Part of what I wanted was for the reader to create her story between the lines of this one.