Talk:Penpal/@comment-26566389-20150702183713

This was a great story, but i expected a little more revealing at the end. I don´t think everything needs to be explained, but a few things were pretty confusing.

1. Why did Mrs Maggie have to die? The stalker moved in there, that´s why she said Tom is back. But he clearly didn´t stay there, otherwise he would have been suspected for murdering Mrs Maggie. I assume it was murder, else she wouldn´t have to be transported in bags (the body was in such a bad condition that they needed bags). Plus, there were maybe also rotten animal bodies, that´s why they transported "bags" and not just one bag and the whole neighborhood wouldn´t "smell like decay" from one corpse.

2. What happened to Boxes? Apparently, the stalker lurked Boxes into going into the crawlspace. But Boxes was there a lot before he got lost and the stalker didn´t harm him. When the narrator returned from searching Boxes in his old house and heard him with the walkie talkie, Boxes was still alive and probably together with the stalker. I don´t think the stalker killed Boxes since Boxes was a part of the narrator and therefore the stalker wanted to keep him close.

3. Why were there dead animals under the crawlspace? Were they trying to get the food the stalker used to lurk Boxes and the stalker killed them? Did they die there naturally because they didn´t get out of the crawlspace? Then why were they all on piles?

4. Why did Josh say "You left" at the narrators birthday? Wasn´t it Josh who became increasingly distant in their relationship?

5. Why did the stalker kidnap the narrator only to leave him at the pool? According to the note he left on the pillow, he meant to kidnap the narrator forever like he did with Josh.

6. Why did the stalker commit suicide at the end? I guess it must have been a single event that made him do it, what was that? My guess would have been that he failed to sent the narrator the pictures and wasn´t able to maintain contact with the narrator, since he moved away and then the cellphone, their last contact, was disconnected.