The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.
Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace ...
And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.
There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.
