I think some "cheap shocks" work in tall-tale sorts of narratives. Like a circus act, where you realize afterward, OF COURSE they were going to do X at that point, but somehow in the moment you didn't think of it and were surprised when the obviously-going-to-go-POOF! thing went POOF!
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Date: 2022-04-11 12:00 am (UTC)