## [Q] Help me choose a blurb for my rational horror story?

* Author: u/eaglejarl *
* URL: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X5JY73Y
* Score: 3

* Created: 2014-10-09T23:45:48

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/None** [+3]  (41 minutes later)
> 
> Apple? Banana? Cherry? Context?

>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2]  (2 hours later)
>> 
>> Argh.  I experimented with adding a second question; apparently when I hit 'cancel' it left it in anyway.  Ignore the second one.

> **u/qznc** [+1]  *Chaos Legion* (9 hours later)
> 
> I like blurbs short, so I shortened the shortest one. :)

>> **u/eaglejarl** [+1]  (14 hours later)
>> 
>> Thank you. :)

> **u/Zeryx** [+1]  (5 days later)
> 
> I liked most of those blurbs, but it defeats the point of calling it a horror story if you offer a way out "...it can all be fixed". I feel you can't have effective horror or even suspense if there's a ray of hope in the blurb itself.

>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2]  (5 days later)
>> 
>> Ah, fair point. It was intended to be the hopeful, self-reassuring but not necessarily true, words of the protagonist, but I see how that might not be clear. 
>> 
>> I'll keep it in mind for next time, thank you.

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