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|  | "The Calling" by Ronald E. Wright
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Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "The Calling" by Ronald E. Wright, featured in Issue #7.
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If you haven't read the story yet, STOP RIGHT HERE and go read it!! This discussion may contain spoilers. At the end of the text, you'll find a link back to this thread.
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| | Re: "The Calling" by Ronald E. Wright
« Reply #1 on Aug 2, 2008, 11:58pm » | |
some of the feedback in the workshop:"A solid old time tale, classic stuff!" "I think I'm really starting to develop a taste for this southern horror."
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| | Re: "The Calling" by Ronald E. Wright
« Reply #2 on Aug 13, 2008, 12:45pm » | |
Ronald has a real ear for conversation and dialect. The conversations where characters speak with accented or colloquial English sound real and unforced. In the hands of too many authors, dialect can descend into caricature.
Also, the matter-of-fact, conversational tone of this story is perfect. As a last will and testament, it is assumed the reader is already privy to certain aspects of the narrator's life. As such, over-explanation isn't needed and the author pulls it off well. The way peripheral characters names are thrown out without explanation give the story a cozy feel, as if the narrator is an old acquaintance. Of course the reader knows these people, the narrator assumes.
Very well done.
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