Thank you for taking the time to read my story. I'm glad I was able to make you feel something. That's the whole point of writing, I think, to somehow transcend the page and communicate something, like a special feeling, that is normally hard to convey. Regarding the fictionality of the story, since this happened more than 20 years ago, some liberties were taken with the details, of course, but the key events explicitly happened.

thanks! i actually recorded an audio version of this yesterday (if you're interested): https://funkwhale.it/library/tracks/17487

just published the fourth chapter. the manuscript is now 98 pages long.

https://howdoyouspell.cool/forrest/the-egg-chapter-4-something-lost-something-returned

i have changed some bits of both chapters already, actually. but it was merely grammatical stuff. i do very extensive editing before i post a chapter, which is part of the reason it takes me so long to release new chapters. i do have a slight fear of "getting stuck" because i committed to a certain plot point or character quirk in an earlier chapter (and i don't plan to make changes of this nature retroactively), so, in this way, i'm sorta bound by what i have already released, which is an interesting limitation to say the least.

*and i appreciate your interest!

anything goes

for you, none; why would you sign up for more than one to begin with? this is for anyone who hasn't signed up for multiple yet-another-indie-writing platforms and is looking for a federated write freely instance to join (considering write.as is closed for registration).

regarding the Trump thing? favorably, IF it led to better outcomes, of course, and this is touched on in the piece too. the essay is pacifistic, however; it relies on the golden rule to say, "hey i might want trump dead but i'm not going to kill trump because i wouldn't want someone to do that to me in the event that they wanted me dead and if more people adopted this outlook then we would be better off." i was channeling some sort of naive peace-loving spirit when writing this, maybe. (i don't actually believe the spirit thing lol, only trying to get a certain idea across.)

some people on the left have been joking about Trump dying for years but now they're all "this sort of violence is unacceptable!" let's not pretend we didn't want this to happen on some level. i value being honest about one's self and motivations. we can admit that we wouldn't mind seeing Trump dead whilst simultaneously being like "but it might not be the best idea to kill Trump." it's important to note that Trump has made many many people feel threatened, and that if anyone should be charged for inciting Trump's assassination, it should be Trump himself.

haha, thank you. yeah the electric car thing is a bit too specific, huh? i thought that too after reading it a few times.