Talk:My Grandfather Suffered from Dementia/@comment-25361316-20150406213451

Hoooo boy, I read this at 2 PM and I can already tell that this is gonna be a sleep-with-the-lights-on kinda night. This preys on a lot of my own personal fears-the untrustworthiness of the mind and the threat of repressed memories returning out of nowhere. And also my fear of, you know, demons.

Maybe you pulled the name "Charlie Rosen" out of a hat, but it is worth pointing out that Rosen is a traditionally Jewish surname and a lot of older people have anti-semitic views of Jews as being tricksters or decievers and having knowledge of the arcane arts. So it would be an interesting wrinkle in the story to me if gramps decided to give his demon a Jewish name out of his own personal prejudices and assumptions.

Again, super good. The idea that you can cause something to be real by hearing it or learning of it or thinking of it is something that scares the shit out of me, and this played with that idea pretty masterfully. Really an ace story.