Talk:The Body Bag/@comment-7706473-20140713071740

This was a uniquely done story, and I can't tell if that works in favor of, or against it. On the one hand, the nature of the scare is very, very vague; and I feel like mentioning the file format on a document file is a sad mark of how times have changed. ;) But on the plus side, that vagary is unsettling because Dave's report is just so - vague, unsettling, unexplainable. Our narrator, who seems only slightly disturbed by the whole file, is somehow the creepiest part for me; the narrator only seems mildly non-plussed at the mysteriously dated (edited? sabotaged?) document, showing no desire to further investigate or explain th occurance... Merely a gladness that it won't, or hasn't happened to them.

And the weirdness of the body-bag victim/undead doppelganger is well-done. I'm unsure whether it's supposed to actually be the corpse of poor Dave, or some strange entity attempting to scare him into an early onset death - successfully it looks like. The feeling of the old Twilight Zone is rather strong in this, and I have to say I like it, overall. I don't think the style will be for everyone - even for me, the breaking up of the dates was a bit cumbersome - but for those who do enjoy it, it's pleasantly chilling indeed. Red poppy, pinned to the lapel.