/lit/ - Literature

>Cyclopean

>>22913050

>Is that... a larger than normal sea creature with tentacles AHHHH ITS BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION I'M LITERALLY GOING INSANE AAHHHHHHHH

Now that the dust has settled, can we admit he was overrated?

>>19080200
yeah lol i figured this would be an issue. it was intended to be a descriptive piece about a town and a strange man who inhabits it, so it felt right for the voice i was writing in to lead in with almost a twilight zone type intro, placing you directly in the situation while also establishing how the narrator got his knowledge. but the story itself is not going to be told as the narrator recounting what happened to himself in any sort of sequential narrative.
a lot of old horror stories do this sort of shit where a story will be told from the perspective of a man being warned by another man of the horrible thing that happened to his friend by reading the letters written by his friend and his friends mother and so on, so the perspective is a little confused. writing in that voice i wanted to evoke, this sort of thing just felt right and it wasn't until the line about breathing through fear that i was fully conscious of what i was doing