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Offscreenshaman's avatar

This is wild in the best way. The voice, the pulse, the small-town dread stitched into every grocery store decision. Every detail pulls double-duty. 🔥

MA Knight's avatar

It’s FERAL, one might say??? Thank you 🙏

Chris Hicks's avatar

Very solid second offering, hints of things to come without overtelling. I’m loving the thought machinations of Bianca, revealing who she is by how she thinks.

Dinner’s ready. Mom’s spaghetti. (Palms are sweaty, knees weak arms are heavy - that’s gonna be stuck in my head all day)

Chekhov’s Wallet: if a wallet is revealed in the first act, the dog must eat it before the third act.

MA Knight's avatar

Oh god now that’s stuck in my head too. I’m glad the info/character work is coming across without being too obvious/expository. Thanks for reading and commenting, Chris! 🐺

Tom Schecter's avatar

I love this already SO much.

MA Knight's avatar

Fuck yeah!!! Me too. I can’t sleep. Help

Tom Schecter's avatar

Keep writinggggg we need the cunnilingus and violence 🤣

MA Knight's avatar

ON IT ✍️✍️✍️✍️🧑🏻‍💻

Daria's avatar

"Vegans don’t do drugs. Not the hard ones, anyway." I *love* Bianca's inner monologue. She's hilarious.

MA Knight's avatar

Eeee thank you! She’s much funnier than me lol

J.W. Meyers's avatar

This is SO alive, I love it! Pouring one out for Peanut, though

Jamie's Grim Tabulations's avatar

Chapter 2 just as good as the first. Can't wait to see these "coyotes" 👀

MA Knight's avatar

Yippee!! I was actually a little insecure about chapter 2, so that’s great to hear

Zephyr Mezmeron's avatar

Constantine Christodoulopoulos is an incredible fucking name. This is gold. Can’t believe I’m just finding it.

MA Knight's avatar

😭😭😭😭 his parents really did the mostest

kirby's avatar

inject this story into my veins PLEASE

MA Knight's avatar

Ok! Sign this waiver first…

(Thank you so much!!)

✧ brooklyn 𓆏's avatar

lmao this is hilarious. “Send. I’m a fucking maniac” actually had me wheezing

MA Knight's avatar

💜💜💜we’ve all been there…

Birdie Falling's avatar

Cackling every time you mention she played soccer. Imagining those muscle thighs. 💦

MA Knight's avatar

Yeasss precisely ⚽️

MA Knight's avatar

Yeasss precisely ⚽️

Caroline Osella   (they/them)'s avatar

Toooooooo good. And this! "“These folks’ll help you. They’re from the Ivy League.”" I'm going to be sniggering all day.

MA Knight's avatar

Hehehe have truer words ever been spoken?? Thanks for reading

Edith Bow's avatar

I love Shygirl. I love all the details you put in this one, tension building, so many questions swirling in my head. Love the voiceover once again. Dialogue feels natural. I don't know why but I heard the twin peaks intro in my brain for a second. I've met a wolf dog & a wolf before and I was almost eaten by a pack of coyotes once in wine country (further up in hills and mountains they get pretty aggressive in the middle of nowhere but not common in towns), the behavior you describe with coyotes and scientists is so real. I love it. I also love the character dev on Bianca, and mysterious Gwen.

MA Knight's avatar

Ahhh. Thank you. I’ve only ever been chased by dogs with neglectful owners in South GA… but never coyotes or anything more wild.

Emily S Hurricane's avatar

Coyotes eh 👀👀👀

Ed the Editor's avatar

Uh oh, wild animals acting strangely. Nah, never mind. It’s nothin’. Just a few aggressive coyotes.

Loving the story and Bianca’s brain so far.

MA Knight's avatar

Nothing to see here… Thanks, Ed!!!!

Drew Valdez's avatar

Still funny! On to 3

MA Knight's avatar

What a relief!!!

Helen Grover's avatar

I like how tangential wolf imagery is cropping up before we ever meet the gang, a pet husky, mentions of lupus, coyotes etc

MA Knight's avatar

Hehe! I love being a tease