Talk:The Smoking Chair/@comment-25901301-20150306021720/@comment-26172797-20150306173039

It was meant to give more of a creepy atmosphere overall, especially when you found out the narrator had been sleeping with a convicted pedophile. I feel like the ending was rushed, and it could have done without all that knife stuff, but I had to end the pasta somehow.

Also, a lot of elements in this story are true. My mum is a heavy smoker to this day, although she doesn't smoke three packs a day and she's not a single mother. My house is exactly as is described in the pasta, with double doors in the hallway that lead out onto the backyard verandah. And my mother is the most loving mum in the world.

Thanks for reading!