May 12, 2025
To:haru
Thanks for reading to the end! And thanks for the review.
I think your reaction is pretty consistent with most other people who read it. When I outlined this originally, it was twice as long, and things were more spread out. It wasn't the fast up-and-downs of the emotional rollercoaster in the last 1/3 of the story. But I didn't have time to write it that way for the contest.
If I do another HF contest, I'll go with something less ambitious from the get-go.
