People in class last week said that "Sea Oak" was about zombies, so when I went into it expecting a dawn of the dead, zombie rampage kind of thing. I really did not expect it to go in the direction that it did.
This was definitely a pretty shocking story, not because the aunt came back as a falling apart corpse, but because of the complete change in her personality. The fact that, this sweet, little old lady is suddenly this vulgar, angry...thing, who keeps telling her nephew to show his cock, was definitely the most disturbing aspect of the story to me.
Also I know we can discuss this for pretty much every story we read, but I'm leaning a bit towards this all being in the speaker's mind. Mostly because there was nothing even remotely supernatural happening until suddenly the aunt shows up in their apartment, and because vulgar as she was, she was still trying to help them improve their life, so I'm thinking it was all some horrific nightmare.
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