Talk:Penpal/@comment-25148755-20150228065133

Really enjoyed this story, but there is one issue with the chronology I'm having that I haven't seen anyone mention: in Screens, Veronica tells the narrator that Josh has run away which, ostensibly, means he was actually kidnapped by Penpal. Penpal runs Veronica over with the car, ultimately killing her. However, in Friends Penpal is  found dead with Josh in the hole. So, I guess we assume that Penpal kept Josh alive for some unspecified amount of time, during which he killed Veronica and then subsequently killed himself and Josh? That or there is a second person who killed Veronica, carrying on Penpal's work after he and Josh were dead. This just seems odd to me: if the narrator was truly the one that Penpal loved, why would he settle for Josh? If it were a spur of the moment thing I could understand it, but it seems he would have had to keep Josh for some amount of time (years even?  I'd have to reread and see how long Veronica says Josh was missing) but still be stalking the narrator (killing Veronica, sitting next to him at the movies, etc) I don't know that the ultimate ending really fits.