this was rly good! i wasn't quite sure what to expect after seeing the "asexual erotica" listed feature but i liked it quite a bit!
spoilers below:
i especially liked the fourth chapter, the change from third to second person narration and the unexpected introduction of a new character instead of going back to Penelope's pov caught me off-guard. i could relate a lot to the her anxieties, insecurities and feeling out of your depth, the line "she did all this at an empty table" hit hard for me. she was the character i was able to connect to the most and i thought it was quite neat how a lot of her feelings for Penelope seemed to mirror the ones Penelope has for Judith, made me wonder if she was going to turn into a vampire and if what she was feeling was a special kind of "attraction" that you feel to the vampire that turned you in this setting or if it was something else, like an obsession that the two of them both feel for the first person to show interest in them after years of loneliness perhaps?
anyway, liked it a lot and i wanted to ask if you had any plans to create a sequel for it at some point or continue it with additional chapters? the ending felt a little abrupt to me and left me a little confused when i realized i had just finished the final chapter, but even if you don't plan on continuing it i still rly enjoyed reading it and i'm glad u wrote it, thx!
Thanks so much for your kind comment! As someone with a lot of social anxiety myself, I was drawing on a lot of personal feelings for chapter four, so I'm glad it resonated with you.
As for the possibility of a sequel or additional chapters: yes, I would love to write more! If inspiration strikes, then future stories about Penny and Indira will end up here, or on my personal website.
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this was rly good! i wasn't quite sure what to expect after seeing the "asexual erotica" listed feature but i liked it quite a bit!
spoilers below:
i especially liked the fourth chapter, the change from third to second person narration and the unexpected introduction of a new character instead of going back to Penelope's pov caught me off-guard. i could relate a lot to the her anxieties, insecurities and feeling out of your depth, the line "she did all this at an empty table" hit hard for me. she was the character i was able to connect to the most and i thought it was quite neat how a lot of her feelings for Penelope seemed to mirror the ones Penelope has for Judith, made me wonder if she was going to turn into a vampire and if what she was feeling was a special kind of "attraction" that you feel to the vampire that turned you in this setting or if it was something else, like an obsession that the two of them both feel for the first person to show interest in them after years of loneliness perhaps?
anyway, liked it a lot and i wanted to ask if you had any plans to create a sequel for it at some point or continue it with additional chapters? the ending felt a little abrupt to me and left me a little confused when i realized i had just finished the final chapter, but even if you don't plan on continuing it i still rly enjoyed reading it and i'm glad u wrote it, thx!
Thanks so much for your kind comment! As someone with a lot of social anxiety myself, I was drawing on a lot of personal feelings for chapter four, so I'm glad it resonated with you.
As for the possibility of a sequel or additional chapters: yes, I would love to write more! If inspiration strikes, then future stories about Penny and Indira will end up here, or on my personal website.
In the meantime, you might enjoy a collection of short stories I wrote called The Bell & Other Stories: https://samlewis.org/stories/thebell/