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mirabiledic2 t1_j8dj8a4 wrote

Reply to comment by Jufilup in [WP] The intricacies of time travel can be baffling and often frustrating, as they are at this moment: you're being arrested by temporal police for a crime you've not yet committed, though there are *rules* against this... by [deleted]

I reckon this nails the perfect WP story.

  1. ⁠takes the prompt in a creative direction all of its own.

  2. ⁠is exceptionally economical and well-written.

  3. ⁠resonates for its realness, which realness is so tragic and unexpected that it functions as a kind of inverted twist.

  4. ⁠damn.

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