Trapped in the Echoes

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Status

Hiatus

Year

2025

Author

elizalin

• Trapped in the Echoes
  Jan 2, 2025

Reviews

Community Reviews(3)

• God of LiesRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Entering a deserted school at night despite the many foreboding warnings... it isn't going to end well is it? I am reminded of The Shining but also of Munsch's The Scream - but I don't want to spoil...
  The writer's style is superb - brutally efficient, nothing wasted, perfectly paced, with just the right dosage of spine-chilling imagery...
  This is the first horror short story by this author - and I presume it complete. But I hope there will be more!
• StrawberryRainRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Itty bitty review for an itty bitty story! Rapid-fire and little, let's do this.
  Gorgeous prose? Check, one thousand times over. Absolutely stunning. Every sentence flows splendidly, and the author leads the smallest of narratives with vibrant descriptions that paint amazing pictures. The imagery in the span of singular sentences is wonderful, especially within the scale of such a small window to write. There's a quick "spooky stories" atmosphere that's established almost immediately by exceptional word choices alone, and it's for the best.
  The setting and story are haunting in their own right, of course. No one likes dark spaces and dark places, and whatever follows you into it only makes things more harrowing. Schools are already scary enough in the daylight. The flashlight needs better batteries.
  Immaculate grammar. Didn't spot a single slip-up, and it was outright invisible beneath spectacular prose if one existed. Chef's kiss.
  Protagonist came by quick and didn't stay long--as is the nature of short stories, of course. Still, the fear was speedily woven and fueled all the way through. Breathable, believable, and offered up shoes easily worn. A great vessel for an even greater little story.
  The author knows what they're doing with miniature horror. This wouldn't be out of place in a compilation, anthology, or magazine publication, and I could very well imagine this as a scary read on a dark night with hot chocolate (granted, oddly specific). Would love to see more in the future, if not to see the same in publications!
• The CommentatorRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I quite enjoyed this little short story. The grammar was next to flawless, the style fit what was being told, and the atmosphere was developed quite well. I can't praise enough that the main character was barely described, since people tend to describe them in unnatural ways and generally make what's being told worse.
  All in all, I think the first short story deserves five stars. I only wonder if this will be an anthology or if it will just be one story.