RE: X Marks The Spot- A Short Story For #finishthestory @bananafish
You got this out so quickly, and the action here is so complex, the way you bring all the characters together, only to separate them, and then weave their story lines for the finale. Yet you tell is so simply, it is just so easy to picture, Derek turning on Terry at the same time as Jon turning on Mike, in the end it just coming down to Terry and his uncle felt right, it felt like it should be a struggle between them. As they were wrestling with the gun, terry grabbing for the knife, it felt representative of their whole history, but then that ending. Damn man. As if it wasn't impressive enough already, that just makes the whole thing.
You are a very good match for this opening, and you tell the ending that wanted to be told, with such amazing skill, this was a liberating entry to see as the first one, in terms of letting my mind wander down less conventional interpretations <3