An Experiment in Second-Person Present

This is an old essay I unearthed and from the depths of my laptop.#Point of view and tense have a dramatic effect on a story's tone.The following excerpt comes from the first typed draft of my short story "Camera," dated March 2001 (it was originally drafted by hand, in a notebook). The story was science fiction, and aimed at an anthology titled Tough Girls. The heroine needed to be emotionally