Talk:Her/@comment-25021327-20141206233451

I was brought here by the random page button, and I'm glad I was. The title of the story is somehow provocative, and simultaneously innocuous. I may have passed this story up left to my own devices.

This was a pretty dark pasta and left a lot up to the imagination of the reader, and I liked that quite a bit. We learn enough about the narrator through little bits, and asides in her descriptions of things in her life that we are able to connect with her on a level a bit deeper than just a narrator. That's what I felt anyhow.

I felt that the pacing here was quite good, and worked perfectly with the length, and tone of the story. The desctiptions were unsettling, but not really gratuitous. The narrator has a very matter of fact tone to her writing, not going into much detail about her emotions regarding things like her misfortunes, the death of her dog, and I felt that it worked because this person is trying to write as either a cry for help, or more likely a message of warning, or simply explanation.

I also like that this story works on a few different levels. From what we know, it is entirely possible that this person is suffering from a type of schizophrenia or psychosis, harming herself, and completely unaware or unwilling to believe it. Aside from the death of the dog, everything else could simply be a matter of skewed perception (we can't really be sure of the implications of what she told to the customer to get herself fired). And it feels as though this person may have had some deep emotional trauma that went unaddressed.

In any case, I enjoyed the story. Although it is very dark, I found it to be an enjoyable, and somewhat thought provoking read. I'm glad I stumbled accross it :)