All Comments on 'Jogging Through the Woods'

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AnonymousAnonymousabout 2 years ago

I definitely gotta commend the quality of your writing, but that ending kinda felt out of nowhere if I'm being honest. The main character here feels like they reacted to this incident in a fairly reasonable and realistic way, and you thoroughly describe how this one traumatic event has changed her entire life for the worse. The protagonist describes the way they feel by saying things like "I died that day" and "my daily nightmares had numbed me to emptiness." But then they apparently actually enjoyed the whole ordeal, so much so that they're now openly inviting it to happen again? It just kinda feels like a really weird incongruence that clashes with everything that was built up beforehand. It's not even that I'm opposed to the idea of a character discovering that they enjoy being raped after initially hating it, but this just feels like oddly abrupt switch.

Also, I know this whole comment was rather negative, but I want to make it abundantly clear that I don't even dislike this story, I just wanted to comment on one negative amidst a sea of things that were done well. After all, it's not like I could write anything better lol

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Just the meandering writings and musings of a 23 year old married slave.