July 7th, 2017 at 04:05am
Layout / Summary
Layout is simple, lovely and readable, so that's a bonus. Your summary had me so curious, because I'm totally one of these kinds of people who is into weird things, so I was really into seeing what you were alluding to here.
Content
So I'm a bit of a conspiracy nut and I am 100% of the belief that alien abductions can and have happened, so I was so buzzing to figure out that this was what the whole thing was about. I love, however, the fact that you don't actually ever mention the word alien. This is all open to interpretation -- the 'lights' could be anything, and I love that. It lets the readers draw their own conclusions about the ending, and about what happens to the man mentioned. The entire story has this eerie, almost ominous feel to it for me. I love that, no matter how many times it happens, the man is still scared of the lights, still worried about what might happen. It's almost like a metaphor for the bad things in life -- we can know they're coming all we want, but we'll never be able to stop being scared. This just adds that creepiness into the whole idea of uncertainty. I love it.
Concrit
My only complaint is that this isn't longer, ha!
Overall
This was such a wonderful little piece. I'd love to learn more about what happens, but at the same time, I think this works so well as a short piece. Suspenseful, impactful and well-written. Nice job!
But overall it was still very good.