User blog comment:ChristianWallis/A Look at Ambiguity/@comment-25569708-20160603212203/@comment-28266772-20160603221801

Thank you so much for the feedback.

For me ambiguity is so hard to pull off, and when done well it elevates something into greatness. I can't think of a greater example than The Shining which isn't even that scary, it's just that for days afterwards I still found myself thinking about it (and that damned photograph). In my first story I originally planned to throw in some evidence that the missing dog mentioned at the beginning was killed by the protagonist while driving drunk, and the dog either represented his growing guilt, or some weird supernatural form of karma. But I felt like it would just bog it all down, and require some weird conversation mechanics where the guy emailed his friend about killing a dog which is a pretty weird thing to talk about out of the blue.