Talk:The Showers/@comment-37227015-20181018052738

What I like about this story is it plays off of the mysterious location trope with tons of unanswered questions. The town is real, but you apparently need to go through endless backroads to find this location. To a lower quality pasta, this may seem like a bit of a cop out, but it does add a sense of eerieness to the story, many are unsettled by backroad off the map locations. The scene with the old lady kind of opens a can of worms to me, because it implies that the townsfolk may have had something with the general plot. It would have also been nicer if the story had a punctuation point to the horror to really drive it home, because it has plenty atmospheric buildup to unsettle the reader, but then it just kinds of falls away, as the moral is just:Don't go to this one town in nebraska else you might encounter this spooky barn if you get lost in these woods.

On to the good stuff, The story is very well written, and has the most important characters fairly fleshed out characters. You can easily emphasize with both mr mays and the main character, whereas secondary characters dont take up too much time. There also wasn't much time spent on irrelevant happenings, the story also had a clear beginning, middle, and end. It actually had me guessing what was going to happen next, which is rare. Something else I enjoyed is how it didn't rely on gore or shock horror as many many pastas tend to do. The best part of this story to me is how it calls into question just how much of his story and Mr mays story was real, manufactured for storytelling, or hallucinated by a fear and drug addled mind.

Overall, not a perfect story, but it is definitely worlds better than some other pastas I have read, even some of the most popular on this wiki. I would be shocked to see this deleted.