Evidence Critique

             The form(s) here are obviously the experiment. I think it was very well executed, with the painstaking attention to detail to make the different mediums—an ad on craigslist and texting appear true to their form. The reader is drawn into the story and slowly learns the characters’ identities. There is an interesting effect when the reader is forced to read from the bottom to the top, going in chronological order rather than through normal up and down, left to right text. I wonder if this could possibly be explored a bit more, although perhaps not in this piece.  I’m curious about the phone number offered in the text in relation to the discovery that the email was falsified. This could create more drama if a transcript were written of Margaret calling the number, and create a little more time for the discovery of the fraud.  Who would be at that number? The texting dialect works well. I almost wish there could be little ambiguity at the end, because, as it stand, I have the feeling that the piece is almost negated by the falsity of the content. I think more could be done to explore the sisters’ relationship after this falling out and could continue to play with the different mediums, as the sisters would be refusing to speak to each other, at least face to face. I’d also like to hear more about Will and his “history” as it is put in the story.