Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25383866-20161023104221/@comment-26525489-20161023214525

Really well done, I am very impressed with your writing style. This kind of writing is what makes me feel nervous about my own stories being good enough.

Your descriptors are very effective, I have a clear and vivid image of the story's setting in my head. It's almost as though you painted the images with your words, I envy that ability. The story itself is simple, but that's what made it so eerie I think. Dealing with these assumedly demonic horrors is a routine night for this unnamed boy and, short of the death of his dog and only companion, this is a normal night.

The way you layered in backstory with the graves of his parents and his memories of their words in his ears was poetry. The subtlety of that paired with mentioning the "Old Cross" simultaneously answered some of my questions and still left me with many new ones.

I got caught up in the story and it left me wanting more. There's not a lot more you can ask of a writer, very well done!