Talk:Ellie Lambert/@comment-4849011-20170111010238

It's a shame the contest was cancelled, especially since this was a good story. Some things I enjoyed were Kes's new pets sympathizing with her, the description of the weird seasonal creatures (along with the punchline that many of them were patrons of the tavern X-D), the neighborhood's reaction to the ghost at first (as though it were a stray dog or cat), and the use of cold to indicate a malicious presence. I liked the creature transforming at the end, and the implication that this was just one of those things was funny. I'm also glad to see a threatening vampiric creature and not one of those moody, brooding, "sexy" lame-o's infesting fiction nowadays. Though I like "Short Hoggers", I also like this early version and its ending.