"Leave Me the Way I was Found," by Christian A. Dumais

[Kenwood]

Anyone wishing to add some thoughts about this particular story and/or author, feel free to do so here. Praise and criticism is encouraged equally, but please keep the latter on the constructive side.

BEWARE OF SPOILERS!

[Shiney]

Just re-read this today... I forgot how damn creepy it was.

[Mercedes]

Isn't it? I thought it was totally fantastic. So short and so bitter. Delightful.

[Shiney]

See we read these all so long ago. when i got my copy of the issue earlier in the week and re-read them...they were all like ghoulish little surprises. It had been so long I had forgotten how good they were.

[Tall Tyrion]

I have the same experience...

[Kenwood]

See we read these all so long ago. when i got my copy of the issue earlier in the week and re-read them...they were all like ghoulish little surprises. It had been so long I had forgotten how good they were.

You guys are lucky. I have to read them so many times, they sort of lose their luster after so many reads in such a short period of time. It takes a good while after for me to forget them, then truly enjoy them again.

As for this particular story, I still think the video is Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." Haha. WORST. RICKROLL. EVER!

[Christian A. Dumais]

Thanks for the kind words. I've always been really proud of this piece.

[Tall Tyrion]

It's also an example of Euphiction, which I didn't know too much about before we got ahold of it. Pretty cool!

[Shiney]

Author JAMES NEWMAN said:


"Dude . . . I just finished the story called "Leave Me the Way I Was Found" in SHOCK TOTEM #2. Damn, that was creepy, and I don't even know why!"

[Christian A. Dumais]

It's also an example of Euphiction, which I didn't know too much about before we got ahold of it. Pretty cool!

It's okay if you didn't know much about it. We had created it over the last year, mostly for COVER STORIES, which is a euphictional anthology. All the stories in the book were inspired by music. My ten stories, plus "Leave Me the Way I was Found", was inspired by the Walkmen's You & Me album. It was a fun project and got me some stories I'm really proud of.

[Rhordain]

I like this story very, very much.

[Tall Tyrion]

You must have good taste.

[Rhordain]

That's what I keep saying.

[Christian A. Dumais]

Thank you very much, Rhordain.