“Promise” tells the story of a woman dealing with the resurfacing of her childhood fear of abandonment and feeling trapped. The story is told in second person, a mode I am usually wary of, but I think it works well here. At first I was thrown off and somewhat put off by it, but it settled in rather quickly and felt comfortable within the framework of the story. The story also uses ‘the Fear’ as a sort of character or at least a menacing force.
I enjoyed the framing of the story within this concert event as well as the return to the protagonist’s childhood to trace the lineage of the Fear. Still, I consider it worth experimenting or exploring new or different angles to tell this story. The story is almost entirely backstory, and I wonder how it might change if the perspective changed. Much is made of the protagonists seemingly prodigious talent, though nothing ever comes of it. To be truthful, the ending seems flat and I would expect there to be some resolution with the protagonist regarding her lifelong relationship with promise.
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