Comments on: A Moth Might Look At A Butterfly http://elephantwords.co.uk/2009/08/21/a-moth-might-look-at-a-butterfly/ One Image, Six Writers, Daily Words. The site about Interpretation, Inspiration and Improvisation. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rivka Jacobs http://elephantwords.co.uk/2009/08/21/a-moth-might-look-at-a-butterfly/#comment-18535 Rivka Jacobs Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:25:58 +0000 http://elephantwords.co.uk/2009/08/21/a-moth-might-look-at-a-butterfly/#comment-18535 A nice, subtle horror story, Nick. Not using quotation marks makes the story more immediate, less of a "story within a story" and more existential (at the risk of sounding overwrought). The theme has been used before, as have most horror themes. The trick is to figure out how to tell it in a new way, with a new meaning and a new twist. And you have done an excellent job. I personally really liked this in the sense of modern culture and how women are made to feel they have to look like someone ELSE (on a billboard, or in a movie, or a tv program, or in a magazine, or a music video) and not themselves. So, a unique and original use of the shape-shifting theme, while at the same time making a social commentary. Definitely a first-class story! A nice, subtle horror story, Nick. Not using quotation marks makes the story more immediate, less of a “story within a story” and more existential (at the risk of sounding overwrought).

The theme has been used before, as have most horror themes. The trick is to figure out how to tell it in a new way, with a new meaning and a new twist. And you have done an excellent job.

I personally really liked this in the sense of modern culture and how women are made to feel they have to look like someone ELSE (on a billboard, or in a movie, or a tv program, or in a magazine, or a music video) and not themselves.

So, a unique and original use of the shape-shifting theme, while at the same time making a social commentary. Definitely a first-class story!

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