Thus concludes my first ”completed” story. I use quotes for completed because honesty I have been toying with continuing this series with another short story...or novella I suppose. This work has taught me something valuable, and that is that I cannot write long stories. I’m far too capricious of a human being. The dedication and motivation to patiently wait for all your plots on the horizon is too far beyond me. I suppose as a human being I have a lot of room for growth. When I wrote Dolls I did so with an entire intricate plot planned out, and then got tired of waiting for it to happen...that’s why for Kaleidoscope I wanted to simply have fun with it, and that honestly is why it got as far as it did.

Kaleidoscope itself was inspired by a certain series, I’m sure most of you can guess it. I love the way that series twists traditional story morals to be more relevant and up to date. It inspired me to try something similar. With Dolls my concept was a hero who is only one because she is forced to be. A deconstruction of the stereotypical save everyone hero. For Kaleidoscope it was displaying the kind of shell shock you experience when choosing a life path using precognition as a kind of heavy handed metaphor.

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I was in a place at the time where I could heavily relate to those themes, so I think that’s a heavy factor of what made the story what it was. So much so that going back now that part of my life is over and editing the series I just couldn’t recapture that and feeling.

I had a lot of fun writing the dialogue for this one, and I hope it shows. With Dolls the main character was very anti social, and so I never got to let loose and have fun with it. So this was a breath of fresh air, lots of the dialogue basically wrote itself.

The ending was the hardest part, originally I ended it without the final clash with fate but. In all honesty it felt like an anticlimax. I’d been deliberately vague about whether extra normal powers existed, and ending it without that scene just left everything in kind of a vague place. Not to mention the pay off to Mei's mantra of how she takes everything head on wasn’t properly paid off. It feels very sudden, but I hope it created a satisfying climax to this short story.

To anyone who bothered to read this far, thank you very much and to everyone who read this story you have my sincerest gratitude. I hope this story gave you guys some enjoyment as you passed the time with me. Until next time.