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Adam. That’s my question--how is he not hovering in a muted scream, in her heart and head? How are thoughts of “what’s happened to Adam???” not part of his sister’s narrative as she relives that day? It would be a blinding mental anguish for a devoted only sister and he’s not mentioned, I think? Did I miss that somehow?

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I went with shock and block, keep moving forward, but I think you’re right. That if that’s what’s going on with her, a couple more cues that she’s shoving out of her mind what we all probably dread has happened…if this is the worst night of her life… they don’t have to be huge. But I think that’ll help.

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That makes sense, thanks!

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Even though I’m binging, your summary was helpful to me too, because there are so many pieces all only starting to converge now. 🤓

Esther snark: 🤣🤣🤣😈

Mmmmph. I had a bad feeling about this… curse you!!! I need sleep.

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Reader technical operations: after being out of state and then having my aunt here visiting from out of state, the quick synopsis was helpful for me to dive back in, as well as the re-skim of this chapter to reorient. I follow the trail of Onward!! Q

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Good! That's exactly what was intended.

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Feb 3, 2023·edited Feb 3, 2023Liked by J.E. Petersen

"Finally, if you’d like a short summary of what’s happened up to this point, so you don’t have to click on a bunch of links to figure out what the hell is going on, I wrote this for you"

I feel seen, but I don't know if that's a good thing. Haha thank you!

Well hello Mr. Jackson River! Exciting addition

“The building that housed the Cubensian headquarters was not one of the ones on fire. It was one of the ones that was gone.”

DAAAAAAAANNNNNNGGGGGG

Danger I really wanna know what the lady wanted who was pointing at her phone and who chased them

And dang what an annoying and to the chapter, as usual. There’s gotta be some way to convince you to let me see things faster than a week.

OH! Or I wonder if you’ve ever thought of releasing this in chunks? Like, it would have to make sense probably with correlating chapters, but 2-4 chapters at a time or something may help with the summary/key thing I mentioned last week that you already implemented at the top. Is there a benefit to doing weekly for you that makes that a bad question/idea?

post.script. Definitely can't wait to meet Sky, which presumably should be soon since... ya know... spaceship and all

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