Comments on: Pseudopod 064: Connecting Door

By: Mari Mitchell

Mari Mitchell — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:39:40 +0000

I loved the bit at the end of where he speaks of being trapped on the Irish Sea more than the story itself. I was fairly sure that is how it would end.

By: Lise

Lise — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:46:00 +0000

This one did work for me, even though, as Spork said, the ending was telegraphed pretty well ahead.

I think the lack of content of the conversation, and the random involvement of the telephone and desk clerk actually added to the creepiness. There was something about the room, the building itself, that just did it...

By: Spork

Spork — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:04:43 +0000

Not bad, but most of it was obvious. I knew there was nobody next door. I knew he would become one of them. The only thing that’s not worked out in the story is the desk clerk and the disconnected phone. It played no role in the story at all.

By: phignewton

phignewton — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:08:23 +0000

snurrk… heheh… FUUUCK.. shhh.. ahem, i think this was a good one.. human conciousness ive heard is not so much a singular linier thread as a number of competing urges and impulses from various ereas of the brain rumbling and murmmmuring to be heard… either one ‘gets’ this one and finds it of value in referance to the human condition or… yes is pointless since the ending didnt really go anywhere, still… hurrr.. fuuuuck…hehe.

By: lefty

lefty — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:17:46 +0000

It was alright, nothing spectacular and it saved me from boredom while driving to the airport. After a while I started finding it amusing and saying fuck every other sentence myself.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:56:30 +0000

Many, many years ago, I went to a movie and the dialog went something like this: “Fuck! Look at that motherfucker! What the fuck is he doing! Stop the fucking car! Stop right there fucker before I shoot your fucking brains out!” And on and on and on . . . About twenty minutes into the movie, I left. It wasn’t that I was offended. I was just annoyed–annoyed that the writers were so lazy that they couldn’t create any interesting dialog to move the story forward. That pretty much sums up my feelings toward this story.
This concept wasn’t bad, but the presentation represents pure laziness If I were the editor, I would have sent the story back and told the author to create a three-dimensional character and have the dialog in the adjoining room actually mean something that might reflect the protagonist’s dilemma. The story didn’t entertain me, nor did it offend me.
It fucking annoyed me.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:58:46 +0000

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