The stories that follow feel like an implicit answer to this question.

A good story must feel to the reader that it happens naturally.

This isn't to say the story doesn't feel true to life.

A story with this many moving parts could easily feel overclever.

Just as quickly, though, the time-jumping makes the story feel more complicated than it needs to.

What does it mean, then, that his harrowing story and voice feel so remote?

"I don't understand that story at all, but 1 feel it," Samuel said.

This is usually a response to criticism that the story feels as if it "just stopped."

The stories of these women do not feel hypothetical.