Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

Some readers come away from Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been unmoved rather than unsettled, finding Connie too self-absorbed or passive to root for and wishing she saw the danger sooner. “Disturbing yes, scary where? maybe i just don't get it,” one reader admits, unconvinced the story earns its reputation. Others describe a general flattening aftereffect from the read itself: “I feel depressed & like my soul is grubby,” with the ambiguous ending leaving them baffled rather than haunted. A third reader stays with it to the end but comes away uncertain what it was even trying to say: “What the hell did I just read.”