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Dr.Don Hall's avatar

Good! Believable. Lesson to learn. All around a story which could fit into any level of social strata.

Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Thank you for reading.🩶

Richard's avatar

Excellent….!

Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Thank you for reading and restacking!🩶 I’m glad you liked it.

kiera's avatar

This is the kind of horror that doesn’t need shadows or monsters—it’s the horror of a single sentence said too lightly, and the universe answering literally. What you capture so well is the violence of consequences: the way guilt can hollow someone out faster than grief, the way a moment of hunger becomes a lifelong wound. It’s messy, human, and unbearably intimate—the kind of ending that doesn’t echo so much as linger, like smoke in someone’s clothes long after the night ends.

Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Thank you for reading.🩶 And for the kind feedback.

Jason Duck's avatar

Loved it. The consequence of lust.

Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Thank you!🩶

Wendy Cockcroft's avatar

Absolutely excellent entry. Such a great tale. Thank you for this, Kathrine.

Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Thank you so much!🩶

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Kathrine Elaine's avatar

Wow, thank you.🩶