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Tim Chessher's avatar

this is great! is there going to be a part 2? 😁

Eliseo F.G. McCarthy's avatar

Mhn, maybe.

Past few days Jess has started to grow on me as a character, and I can see where she would fit in where I would like to take the story in the future.

My other Edge of the Universe short, however, is getting a part 2, so I hope I can keep you entertained with it! 😃

I am really glad that you're interested in this story, though!

Tim Chessher's avatar

Good to know there will be a part two somewhere. Even better that it’s the same universe. Super interesting world you’ve built!

Eliseo F.G. McCarthy's avatar

I'm planning on starting to write the rest sometime today and I plan on releasing them next month, I hope that I can explore more of this world! There's a lot I can do with it!

Albert Kivak's avatar

Reminds me when Dracula had to go to war with the human race because humans are pathetic

Nicholas Samuel Stember's avatar

I like how this one played out.

Florence Acosta's avatar

I don’t usually care for sci-fi. But this was one I liked a lot!

Eliseo F.G. McCarthy's avatar

That really means a lot to me, thank you!

I wanted to do something outside of the traditional aliens and lasers here, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

Monica A Leyva's avatar

Eliseo, Each delay feels incidental, but together they shape belief.

By the time Jess questions it, she’s already inside it.

That line about planted thoughts hits hard.

It turns doubt itself into evidence.

Eliseo F.G. McCarthy's avatar

Thank you so much!

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I definitely did what I could to put some startling elements in here, I'm really glad that they worked!

Mars's avatar

Your story, my friend, gave me shivers and evokes a deeply unsettling sense of injustice. What happens to her, especially being accused of heresy, doesn't feel distant or abstract at all. Things like this have happened here too 😅 I would be mad.

Eliseo F.G. McCarthy's avatar

I’m glad this one did just that!

This was my take on some of what I saw wrong with our world, but in a different setting to remove our own conceptions.