Talk:Penpal/@comment-39738389-20190608094637

I read this while listening to MrCreepyPasta narrate it. I fucking LOVED IT. This is by far the best pasta I've seen thus far. So many parts of it shattered my heart.

The part where the author was trying to date Veronica was so sweet. The author did a really good job recounting this from the perspective of a teenage boy. I found myself smiling in some parts which is rare for a pasta. I also smiled at Josh's walkie-talkie speak.

I kind of saw Veronica's death coming. When the author talked about how he'd been messaging with Veronica for a while and then the man sat next to him in the theater, it clicked for me that Veronica had been dead all along. (Well, not all along, but you get my point.) That was about the only part of the story that I saw coming.

I loved how the author went back as far as kindergarten. Seeing the moment when the author and Josh became friends was so sweet. It's sad that something as beautiful as childhood (and what probably would have been a lifelong) friendship tarnished by someone as shitty as the stalker.

I do have a theory about the stalker. There's never any mention of the author's father. I wonder if, at some point,  the author's father and mother split up. It's a stretch, but maybe the father found the author's balloon. Or maybe he knew what was going on at the author's school because he'd been stalking the author for a while. It's just something that occurred to me after I was done with the story.

The author did a really great job making you feel just the right emotion at just the right moment: sadness and sympathy for Mrs. Maggie, happiness seeing the author and Josh become friends, absolute horror at Mrs. Maggie's body being brought out in bags, and disgust, horror, and despair when Josh's dad found the coffin. One of the biggest signs of an excellent writer is the ability for the writer to manipulate the audience's emotions effectively. This story set a high, high bar for that.

Overall, this was one hell of a ride, and I loved every minute of it. I listened and read the whole thing in one sitting because I was too gripped to leave.