"Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'."

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Source: Kanban Pioneer. Interview with Leonardo Campos, Rafael Buzon, Eric Fer and Anselmo Martelini, www.infoq.com. March 16, 2013.

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