Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-28088262-20140705101316/@comment-9967354-20140705143828

So what I figured is that the narrator is dead, and his death has nothing to do with the ritual itself, but rather a fatal illness, which is okay because the ritual isn't the point of the story. But the ritual is all of the story. Maybe you don't have to drop any more hints, because, and you said it, it'll sound a bit lame. But then I really have no idea how to make it clearer. There's a lot of stress on the ritual which sort of makes the reader think the last part has something to do with it. I don't think you should change it, but then I can't think why I didn't get it. I probably still don't.