frogandbanjo t1_japawsz wrote on March 3, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Reply to comment by frogandbanjo in [WP] You are a werewolf trying your best to live peacefully among humans, but your SO has just proposed to you with a ring of pure silver. You genuinely love and want to marry them, but you also have to somehow get out of accepting this ring. by Kitty_Fuchs

Step Four: Never Look Back

But I did, because I'd loved him. He didn't come after me. He spun some bullshit. He took his lumps with his superiors. He was cleared of all wrongdoing in my disappearance. I didn't have to finalize the frame job; I let it fizzle.

I'd loved him, but I felt worse about Penny. That's just how it was. I knew I'd need another one of her, whether I risked another lover or not.

The ring was worth closer to a thousand. I only got a few hundred. I made it stretch.

TynamM t1_jat6gz2 wrote on March 3, 2023 at 9:54 PM

This is a magnificent story. Complete in itself yet sketching a compelling world.

frogandbanjo t1_jaub83k wrote on March 4, 2023 at 3:07 AM

I appreciate it. It can be tough trying to write stuff after a prompt's already gotten some responses and upvotes. Thanks for taking the time to read one of the later entries.

TynamM t1_jaw9t3h wrote on March 4, 2023 at 3:50 PM

I deeply loved the multiple layers of do-you-know-that-I-know-that-you-knew going on in the protagonist's thoughts. It's hard to do that in the space of a short without being unclear but I was able to follow exactly how the levels of deception interacted, which kept my attention rivetted.