He published this over a month ago, but I forgot to announce it! It's a great reading. Again, I found myself able to enjoy the story in a way I couldn't before, because hearing someone else's reading of it made it new to me.

Scribbler's reading of "Trust" has 19,000 views. Shadow's has 47. That ain't fair!

They're very different readings, but both run 10 minutes and 20 seconds.

A lot of my stories have twist endings. Twist endings are hazardous because the twist itself is typically a small idea that could be expressed in a few sentences, but you need an entire story leading up to it to make the reader care enough that the twist will have impact. It’s easy for the twist to overshadow everything else in the author’s mind, which results in 20,000 words of limp story followed by a one-paragraph zinger.

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