Review of Once Upon a Time by JayPea
16 October 2024
This review contains spoilers
There's something that I really like about stories about stories, and this does just scratch that itch for me. Sure the idea of a 'medium monster' has been done before, but as with a lot of these shorts there's a certain charm to the way it's done here.
The inciting incident is a great way to bring us in, especially being about the medium it's a part of, and the fact Donna briefly gets sucked into the monster's power as well gives us a chance to see what impact the creature can have on others from a first person view (if the descriptions of rotten fruits weren't enough).
And again, the ending, beating the creature with a happily ever after, and 10 reminiscing on how that used to be how things end is really nice and does bring you into the emotion.