Talk:A Tale To Tell: Doll For A Daughter/@comment-7706473-20140717093519

What a pleasant story, and with a happy ending at that! It's only a pity that given the marionette nature of the unwilling apprentice's work, few will continue on the true craft of the mother - but, that's a professional's complaint. I hope that Gi's craft continues to improve as the years go by!..

(Semi)jokes aside, I'll start with some of the issues I had, as is my wont. For one, there were a few 'realism' things that I have a tendancy to overthink. For one, there's a total difference in skill necessary in the taxidermy necessary to preserve an animal, and a human body; one of the reasons embalmers and taxidermists tend to be two seperate professions. My experience is with the latter, so the question I had was - at what point did the idea of corpse-dolls become acceptable to a town that was allegedly insular and devoted to the Bible? This has a kind of silly Hammer Horror feel to it that felt more silly then ghoulish, but... To be honest? I kind of think it enhanced the atmosphere. I was laughing a bit, but it was the good and unnerved kind of laughter.

Other then that, there were a few things, lesse... Blood from a corpse, no matter how well preserved, probably won't spurt; maybe gush, or drool, or ooze? I wanted to know a bit more about the town, too; I think perhaps a bit of the post-exposition could have been cut and merged into a set-up to make us cheer even m- er, shiver at the prospect of a town going quiet, one peculiar night... I wouldn't know where and what to cut, however. Oh - I did think it was peculiar how Damien was mentioned, then not brought into the story proper?

But this was great. It had just the right blend of Tales of the Crypt weirdness, a friendly narrator, laughs, chills, and all the things I enjoy about a good story. My perspectives are skewed of course, but again, I much enjoyed. Oak bark - it's not a flower, but the tannin is quite useful.