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Posted by: Don, November 22nd, 2020, 1:20pm
One Morning at the Restroom by Nico Aaron - Short, Thriller - A man and a woman find themselves inside a restroom during a workplace shooting, but what they'll find out about each other is probably not what either of them expected. 11 pages - pdf format

Writer interested in feedback on this work

Posted by: eldave1, November 27th, 2020, 8:28pm; Reply: 1
You have a kernel of a good premise. BUT....

There are tons of typos and grammatical errors - far too many to list - try using Gramerly - it's free.

The dialogue is not at all natural.

For example, here:


Quoted Text
PAULA
No, No I'm not.
(beat)
Do you-- do you know who's doing
this?
LEWIS
Who's doing what?


Wo's doing what??? The place is being shot up and he's escaped into a restroom - Of course he knows what "what" is. Several places like this where it doesn't make any sense.

The ending is rather pointless.  Think of something more clever - twisty.
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