Response to "1-900"

The story was, for lack of a better word, unique. The caller seemed to be just a bit disturbed. Very disturbed actually. The story was told in an interesting format. As it was told entirely through dialogue, there wasn’t much detail about the characters and what they were doing other than what is during the long telephone conversation between the two. The lack of detail is covered in the dialogue, though mostly by the caller, John. You start out knowing next to nothing about the two but as the story opens up, little trickles out between the things said. The way details trickle out very slowly is neat but it isn’t something I’d use. The way the story is told makes one feel like they are just listening in on a phone conversation (of course in this case, that’s what it is). Though the lack of detail of the characters’ environments does little to keep one from getting into the story, it does create a feeling of detachment. It is hard to care about them because we know little more than what they explicitly say.