Title: Fan Fatale
Author: Jinx James
Date: 2023
Quote: "Robyn...soon completely covered the wall of her bedroom with hundreds of photos of Amber."
Which is more the stuff of nightmares: a deranged, over-the-top fan, or a pretty starlet with no talent, a weak character, and a lot of bad habits? Robyn is the first; Amber is the second. This story, extracted from a collection of short stories, is a horror comic all the way.
More of us are more likely to have to deal with deranged fans (or even no-talent starlets) than with assassins so why do I read this story as whimsical and amusing, while yesterday's story was concerning? I think the treatment of the topic matters. While some people might be tempted to become deranged fans (or no-talent starlets), this story emphasizes that those are bad things to be and shows how Robyn and Amber could have stopped their own descents from tedious to obnoxious to horrible. They're not being paid to make careers out of being tacky. Nobody is really being hurt...up to the end.
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