“Evidence” is a collection of virtual correspondences
through a missed connection on Craigslist, emails, and text messages. Until the final page, the reader is lead to
believe that this Will Peters is cheating on his fiancé, Margaret, with Kat,
who he met at a Mexican restaurant.
After reaching out to Kat with a Craigslist missed connection, Will
covers up the affair by communicating with his mistress through email. Supposedly Darlene, Margaret’s sister, served
Kat at a coffee shop and accessed her email account after discussing a love
interest that sounded very similar to Margaret’s fiancé. The final page offers a drastic shift when it
is revealed that sixteen year Darlene went through the trouble of fabricating
the entire scenario so that her sister would not leave for NYC.
You experiment, almost obsessively, with text and the
various lingos associated with virtual communication. The story accurately mimics the format of
Craigslist ads, emails, and text messages viewed on an iPhone. It is so convincing that one could suspect
that you cut and pasted the text from online sources. The effort that you put into the composition
is impressive. I’m just a little
skeptical that a 16 year old would commit so much time to creating fake email
accounts and conversations to keep her sister at home before just talking to
her. Still, the story is very well
crafted.
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