Dane Eastergaard had only driven her deceased grandmother’s sunflower Volkswagen bus on half a dozen occasions in the year since she’d inherited the creaky, stoop-shouldered blue Victorian home on the outskirts of Oxbow, Maine.
The Battle of the Bulge parallel is the best move in the chapter... drunk logic that's also completely coherent character logic. Dane has spent the whole story treating men like territory to take, so of course she narrates herself into a tank when the strategy fails. What makes her work as a character is that the vulnerability is always there just under the surface. The father who doesn't call back lands harder than the job loss. That detail does a lot of.
That was the most exciting episode yet! I don’t know whether to call Dane sad or unhinged. I am starting to pity her. And we don’t know if she even survived the explosion. Oh, wait… we will find out in two more weeks!
I just love how you conjure images for me Will because I read as if I see a movie or photographs etc. You describe everything so well and yet leave room for me to add more and this chapter was a great example of that with the tension building through so many different ways around who Dane really is, or maybe now, was! And the differing emotions we can feel for her. What a cliffhanger! Difficult to build really when the given premise or town etc is so small, with limited opportunities to build a story around other than from your imagination. Where will you take us now I wonder?
Fire once again enters their stories! I also have pity for Dane; she shows signs of early sexual abuse. But mostly I'm worried about Will's cabin/ the Love Nest. Thanks for an exciting new episode! nora ann
The Battle of the Bulge parallel is the best move in the chapter... drunk logic that's also completely coherent character logic. Dane has spent the whole story treating men like territory to take, so of course she narrates herself into a tank when the strategy fails. What makes her work as a character is that the vulnerability is always there just under the surface. The father who doesn't call back lands harder than the job loss. That detail does a lot of.
Dane seems unable to make a good decision, even when her life depends upon it.
By the time I reached the fiery bus/cabin explosion scene, I was reading at a speed that might have exploded itself. I can picture it all.
That was the most exciting episode yet! I don’t know whether to call Dane sad or unhinged. I am starting to pity her. And we don’t know if she even survived the explosion. Oh, wait… we will find out in two more weeks!
A Great Dane and her battle scars.
I just love how you conjure images for me Will because I read as if I see a movie or photographs etc. You describe everything so well and yet leave room for me to add more and this chapter was a great example of that with the tension building through so many different ways around who Dane really is, or maybe now, was! And the differing emotions we can feel for her. What a cliffhanger! Difficult to build really when the given premise or town etc is so small, with limited opportunities to build a story around other than from your imagination. Where will you take us now I wonder?
OMG now that was a chapter!
Well for sure I didn’t see that coming.
Still loving the writing. I'm not sure we've heard the last of Dane. Is she really toast 🤔 or did she manage to get out of the bus in time?
Wow, that was a surprising chapter. Ms. Dane is even crazier than I thought.
Whoa! That was a dramatic end to the scene, hopefully the end of the Dane, too.
Wow, you sure finished Dane off! Surprising
Wow, I wasn’t expecting this twist!! Really good writing. 👏🏻
Well, now. That was an explosive ending. Dane doesn't make the best decisions and getting rather weary of her...
Oh, Dane. 😞 I do feel sorry for her. So many fires in this story!
Well, what a surprise!
Fire once again enters their stories! I also have pity for Dane; she shows signs of early sexual abuse. But mostly I'm worried about Will's cabin/ the Love Nest. Thanks for an exciting new episode! nora ann