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Sitting under the yellow of the last cottonwood on the acre. An orange haze on the horizon. Never-ending farmland. The darkening evening sky.
A short story about the day before Halloween.
Entrant - Bare Bones Jam 2024
Entrant, La Petite Mort - English - ECTOCOMP 2024
This was a short pleasant story presented in Twine. It portrays, in reverse order, several Halloween celebrations of a teenage girl.
There's no overt message, but a lot of feeling and overall cohesion in atmosphere. A kind of mix of melancholy and unexpressible feelings, both good and bad, with an overall positive feeling (the way that I experienced it). Kind of game me the same feelings as *Little Women* or Disney's *Pinocchio*, like a coming of age story that is worthwhile but traumatic (I know those two evoke very different feelings but in me they both made me feel 'growing up is scary but solemnly good').
There aren't any choices in this. Choices often enhance my experience, which is why I lean to interactive fiction more than static fiction. As a story, though, this works, and the link-clicking does help with pacing.