Camy Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 If you like a well written and very 'English' ghost story, then let me recommend 'Tapping', by Kit http://www.crvboy.org/stories/kit/t/c01.html Link to comment
DesDownunder Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 If you like a well written and very 'English' ghost story, then let me recommend 'Tapping', by Kithttp://www.crvboy.org/stories/kit/t/c01.html Yes I read that one. It is really quite good. Well worth a read. Link to comment
Tanuki Racoon Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Yes I read that one. It is really quite good. Well worth a read. Seconded. It gets the Wibby Seal of Approval. Link to comment
JamesSavik Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 That was one of the first stories that I read at CrVboy's board. It is good. Link to comment
Cole Parker Posted June 20, 2007 Report Share Posted June 20, 2007 Let me join the chorus. I read it a couple years ago. Very, very good story, and excellent writing. It's bound to draw you in. Once started, you'll finish it. Guananteed. Cole Link to comment
ChrisR Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Thanks for the recommendation. Just finished it and it was an exceptionally well written story. Kit's characters, the setting, and the tale itself were exceptional Thank goodness the web lives forever! Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 I just finished reading it. I love stories with this kind of mystery in them. There are very interesting questions raised at the end concerning free will versus external control. R Link to comment
Lugnutz Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 Read this several times. It's due for another trip. Link to comment
Cole Parker Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 He's written several stories, all well-crafted, but I enjoy this one the most. C Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 I was left confused by a couple of things: What was the significance of the glass window breaking from the inside out, and creating small particles instead of shards? What was up with the narrator trying to choke himself? R Link to comment
ChrisR Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 *** SPOILER ALERT *** Rutabaga - Here's my interpretation of things. Might be right or wrong! The window was broken from the inside - it wasn't anybody or anything trying to get in - so the broken glass was mostly on the ground outside.Nothing went through the window, like a football or rock, which would have left big chunks of glass. This was more of a "force field" explosive sort of shock to the glass. Perhaps a psychic shockwave.As for his hands, a choking individual will often have his hands around his throat, trying to breathe. A boy who'd been hanged would be just like that. Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 I think the overall explanation is that there are things that aren't going to be explained, that the characters don't understand any better than we do. For example, at one point in the househuntng in chapter 2, Mark and his dad look at a house that looks fine on the outside, but as soon as Mark steps inside he is overwhelmed by feelings of dread and horror so powerful that he has to run back outside in terror and anxiety. He is so vehement in his revulsion that his dad concurs that they will cross that house off of their list. Of course, from what we learn later in the story, this episode is a foreshadowing of Mark's sensitivity to imprinted echoes of the past, something he almost certainly inherited from his mother. And it seems similarly likely that Mark's dad recognizes, or at least strongly suspects, that Mark is manifesting the same ability (or curse) that his mother had to contend with. We never do find out what the deal might have been with this house -- only that it seemed to have really bad juju. R Link to comment
ChrisR Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Let's combine "ominous" and "omen" and call it "omenous"! Link to comment
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