All I can say is that I loved it!

Brilliant!

could there BE a higher compliment, silasandsheba?

Well I certainly didn't expect that ending, my stomach dropped and my innards shifted. Effing hell. This is brilliant.

Ripples just sent me a message with a link of this story. It was BRILLIANT! I know that many writers on this site will be able to relate to this. :)
great job on this piece
-Angely

Wow, yeah that was certainly worth sending a message tell all of my friends. Good luck!

happy to have you recommend it to your group friends.

Kind of how many of us feel at times! In certain respects as I finished reading (you're an amazing writer) I had visions of John Kennedy Toole.
But your story has such depth and power-the neurotic preoccupation with hygiene; a glimpse at a brilliant mind gone south. Depression.
Great writing, Bram.

you're spot on.

Brilliantly written with an ending I would never have suspected. You captured the OC personality perfectly, yet surprised me with the real fear that must have been inside this woman..the fear of success.

Well done indeed.