I did not enjoy this. At all.
This story is not horror. Period. It even feels like a chronicle—and I mean the Latin type of chronicle: a genre-bending, humorous story that makes fun and/or criticizes some aspect of the contemporary world.
It starts with a quote of a story called, “The problem with being born” so, as I was reading the beginning, I thought that all that defecation was because shitting is a common thing in life or whatever
. But, as I kept reading through the story, I didn’t know what to think anymore. I had fun at first, but the joke got old with all the repetition.
The speculative element is very dim. It’s debatable, even. Maybe there’s no speculative element at all. That means that this story has been
misplaced.
This is not scary nor funny nor deep (
or maybe too deep?). It’s simply weird. The authors are not even trying.
All things considered, I think it’s safe to assume that this is the first story, here in the Escape Artists Podcasts, that I’d classify as
objectively bad.
I'd give this a zero out of ten, but I'll give it a one because I admire its shamelessness.
I'll give them that.