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So this started as a horror with a nurse (How did she get there?) somehow being in Vietnamese tunnels being pulled by a creature with glowing red eyes and ended up with an old man's pity party. I don't get the connection between the nurse and Weasel unless it was him that threw the C4. It's well written but it didn't really connect with me. Well done.
If at first you don't succeed........bribe someone.
Would work as a music Video for AIC I think I think you could have took advantage of the three extra pages and gotten into into the mud so to speak, what the thing with red eyes was, etc. For 3 pages though it's pretty good, nice effort.
There is nice coordination between the narration and different time elements. A lot of the dialogue works well. The scene where Rooster is shot is very effective. I feel like I am missing something with the red eyes in the opening sequence. I kept waiting for them to return.
While I enjoyed this, the ending is less than the sum of its parts. There was an opportunity for more, but as is that last line doesn't carry enough weight. Yes, it's a call back, but it's executed in a way that doesn't land for me.
Of all the atrocities those soldiers could have done in the village, you really pulled your punches there. No, I didn't want to see glorified war crimes on display, but even the suggestion of real "payback" would have added some much needed oomph to the scene.
What confuses me the most here is the nurse. If he sees the ghosts of people he wronged, what did he do to her? The only mention of a nurse is the opening with a nurse being yanked into the darkness (Hell?) and glowing red eyes, and I have no idea how that relates to everything else. If that were the same nurse, there's nothing to connect the two at all, not even long black hair.
What I thought early on was the nurse was actually Death, and he was recounting this as a sort of life-flashing-before-your-eyes thing, with his destination that pit the nurse in the opening showed us. While it would have been interesting, you did something different by trying to show his life is a living hell already, which is better in my opinion. It just didn't quite get there.
Another one with a war theme… Can’t recall the last OWC that featured so many war scripts.
Took me a couple of reads to get the visual on that opening image.
The scene with old Weasel and the hands on P3 feels a bit jarring given the setup. He starts out seemingly quite open to talking about what happened - almost cavalier about it - only to go into a sudden reversal. As he's (seemingly) talking to himself I couldn't understand why he'd want to set himself up to revisit the memories of such a traumatic experience.
Maybe he can't help himself but I think we could have done with a more distinct reasoning as to why he’s talking about his experiences (perhaps reluctant and coerced into it) otherwise it hits something of a false note.
I’m a bit lost on this one which is a shame as I liked the set-up and the dialogue was punchy with plenty of character to it.
I never really understood the significance of the red glowing eyes. Whether they were real or imaged or meant to signify something?
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Other than not getting the title and having no clue what the red eyes were, I like this one. I can definitely see a vet in a nursing home losing it like this. Read smoothly, only noticed two glitches: don't bold action lines especially short ones mistakable for mini-slugs, plus spell out "Saint" in dialog.
He probably wasn't caught committing the war crime, but ended up paying for it anyway.
One tiny suggestion, I would have something in the facility room with Weasel's nickname on it just to make the connection crystal clear.