Like others have said it was pretty disjointed, and the date-rapey ending put me off my feed.
An excellent start. Ultimately the first two segments were just setup and the third was a quick BE scene that was good while it was going. Definitely could've been expanded,but for a quick read it's definitely one of the better written ones we've seen in a while. Good work.
Please write more, this was fantastic.
Would love to see another story like this.
Hot damn! Not every day you see something this good out of a first-time poster here. Well done! There were a couple of odd spelling errors that (misspelled 'viscinity' and 'vulnerable'), made strange mostly by how polished most of the rest of the work was.
Was this just a thing-that-struck-you oneshot, or a proof-of-concept for a longer work? (I ask because the three parts of the story are curiously disjointed from one another, so it feels like three related ideas rather than one large one.)
In either case, well done, and I hope to see more from you, either of Rachel, or another story entirely!
Some problems with closing quotes, but ...
Excellent!
Keep writing.