Talk:The Ghost Tower/@comment-4849011-20160728002247/@comment-4893169-20160728010548

''Raidra wrote: First off, I loved the descriptions in this (Don't I always love your descriptions, though?). Second, this taps into the fantasy of having a private and luxurious place, but also reflects the dread of being alone, or that you think you're alone, but you're really not. In order words, a lot of us fantasize about being alone, but if it happened, we'd soon be sorrowful and afraid. There were aspects of this story that were subtle, but still nightmarish.

As a final note, I see that even fantastical realms have problems with invasive species. ;-)''

Thanks Raidra. This particular story I'm also currently expanding into a graphic novel. The country it mainly takes place in is an artificially-built continent that was originally designed as a nature reserve recreating the ancient environment of pre-human Australia. With the fall of the technologically advanced society responsible for New Australia's creation, it soon got colonized/invaded by various people from adjacent islands and still further shore. And like the original Australia, it was not settled peacefully, it was invaded, occupied and colonized--either by colonists from Midgard or Old Urth or from the Faerie Territories.

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