Hello writer

H.G. Wells, we shall see lol

Alright, very good - just read the whole thing through. It kept my attention as I really enjoyed the story.

Good world building, reminded me of I Am Legend. The red weed is interesting, I would quite like to see this developed as a full blown feature - really fleshing out the origins of this weed and her battle to survive in this harsh world.

I think the writing itself could be changed up slightly to heighten tension and hit key scene beats - It was a bit mundane in the sense of it's like "this happens, then this happens" - Don't get me wrong, I can't do it lol - the last scene is a good example, this is a tense moment where she has to chop off her own arm to survive but it's so rushed it reeds as if she is doing something as mundane as cutting her fingernails - I think you squeezed this in to the 5 pages though to be fair.

High marks from me though, I really enjoyed it.

Not bad. Definitely got a heavy Days Gone vibe while reading this.

Very good, visual writing on display. You totally had me along for the ride.

Good use of the plane and sanitizer, and although I didn't find anything to be particularly scary, it's definitely still horror.

Not really a story here, though. Just a sequence of events leading to a (unbelievable) scene where Nicolle cuts off her arm. Feel like it was a bit too easy for her to do that.

Still, excellent writing here. I liked it.

After reading three stories here and all three without a central character I got my spirits high seeing yours.
The beginning is very promising, it seems like build up to a good drama. The small action though pulled me out of the read multiple times.
Then I realized it's not an easy read. It was going on and on without my story or so I thought.
You do have an ending that means something and picked up my interest but it's the ending which means it came at the end.
Don't mind me, see what the others say but I won't applaud this effort.

Two lines of dialog but worthy. No need for unnecessary lines when she's all alone. Good job.

Can't say the story was striking in any way. It seemed a combination of many other stories already told. Nice touch with the lead being female (girl power!) and her tools of choice.

Criteria met, no issues there. Character development was okay, and dialog, as mentioned, was rationed nicely.

Good job.

The Red Weed

Oh,
H.G. Wells…
don't be so modest.

cap the figure and break up the action block

yeah, you tried to fix the genre problem at the end, I see - still a SF, just some dark elements we'd see in all those dystopia survival movies.

No worries though, I'm so confused of all these action adventures and SFs that I let them all pass. Stupid of me since it should have been the most important criteria. I just understood the rules now that the same sanitizer usage people will defend their group and the SF people will, so on and so on. And damn would I wish for a real horror group in hindsight who plays it hard… None. So, won't hold that against you, I swear. Nice world-building. You seem to have had fun writing this. The read was slow, felt overwritten in places. The girl was okay, liked her. Maybe I was just disappointed to not get a horror movie for another time.
Soooo, nice story.