I would have wished that if one of my stories was going to be discussed on this forum, it would have been another (any other).

All of my stories are experiments of one sort of another, and this one is not one of my more successful experiments. As stated above, it was originally conceived as a horror story, and in that regard it succeeded perhaps too well.

Having said that, the story itself isn't the subject of the thread. Moggy originally started the thread in response to my comment regarding his review in which I expressed chagrin that this story (which is not my best work) is getting more reader response than any of my others. I wondered if that was due to the fact that I posted it in segments and that's mainly what the discussion has been about.

So, my question is, if you read the story, what prompted you to read it? Would you have read it if the origingal post had been 200k or more?