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Nugget


"Hi! I'm Nugget, and I'm your friend to the end. Haydeeho! Ha ha ha!"

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Based upon elements from Edgar Allen Poe's "A Tell-Tale Heart."


I can't stop looking my own plush. I don't know why, but I can't seem to stop looking at it and taking care of it. What's wrong with me? I've never acted this way before.


Audio Reading by MatfixBrony

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Comments ( 9 )

I really loved and enjoyed reading this! Good job!

Well done! I really enjoyed this story. There were so many ways it could have gone and I wasn't sure where it was going till the end. I like that quality in a story.

The main character felt like they were genuinely going through a very ambiguous process of figuring out whether they were experiencing a psychological problem or a supernatural one. Some of my favorite stories are the ambiguous ones.

Part of me wondered whether the narrator might have actually been the doll talking through the main character. Then when it was thrown into the fire, i thought it was going to realize that it had accidentally killed itself. I think I got that idea from reading lots of SCP Foundation.

Very good story! Fav and liked for sure :)

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I've noted that I tend to be a ambiguous writer since I don't like my stories to be taken at their face value. Usually, I want the reader to push past what's within my narrative and take a closer look at certain details I write. For example, this story was based around Edgar Allan Poe's A Tell-Tale Heart, where a man goes insane and kills another man because of his vulture-like eyes. I took that element and replicated that idea within the story about a unicorn going crazy over a plush. However, I wanted to send a direct message to the reader and say, "This is how powerful obsession can be... and the only true way to cure yourself of it is to get rid of it by any means which are deemed necessary."

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Ahhh I like your approach to obsession! Yes this story really does have the feel of the telltale heart. In retrospect, the destruction of the doll feels like one of the only true ways to wrap up this story or at least you wrote it in such a way that such an ending feels only natural. :)

Wow, despite how short this is, it gets easily pretty dark and emotionally strong, along with the pony’s exponentially growing obsession. Very nicely written! :pinkiecrazy:
PS: The only downside I was able to find were some mixed up it’s and its.

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I made a few fixes. :twilightsmile:

Thanks!

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You’re welcome, it was a great story!

From the mystery surrounding the plush, I'd say it's an SCP :pinkiecrazy: Creepy... Maybe he got it from the same store Trixie bought the Alicorn Amulet from? It truly is a very nice way of describing someones obsession, and it is well-written, even a bit suspenseful. I also like the mystery surrounding the wind. Whose voice got carried by the wind? Was it a real pony, or the wind itself, or a ghost? Or was it all in his head? I love mystery, especially when it has something to do with the occult, although I think in this story you are referring more to the mental senses.

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