Story: “Okay To Tell” by Emely Recinos

My expectations about how this story would pan out weren’t correct at any point. I thought she would go on to explain more about her friend group in particular (which she didn’t, she only mentioned it once), I thought she would direct more attention towards her own struggle dealing with the fact that she was losing her vision (which she seemed to just play off, as if other people knowing about it affected her more), and I imagined she would have some big insight at the end of it that was more than just that she should tell more people about it.

In my opinion, her narrative was all over the place, bringing attention to certain things such as her friend group, having to use a ‘blind person stick’, her cousins or her brother’s beliefs, and jumping to something else in the next sentence. I also noticed how the expression in her voice probably got more across than a block of the same text would’ve.