"Have you read any mysteries you enjoyed?" Hawthorne asked.
"Yes, I really enjoyed your story, "The Minister's Black Veil." I think it was exciting. I kept wanting to read and find out if Mr. Hooper was going to remove his veil. I was kept in suspense all the way through the story."
"How do you like the way I ended the story?"
"It was a good ending. Mr. Hooper remained faithful to his commitment of the black veil. However, I wish I could have had some more hints as to why he wore the veil and wouldn't take it off when Elizabeth asked him to. I wanted to find out why he was hiding his face."
"I wrote it like this because I wanted the readers to be detectives and come to their own conclusions."
"Have you read anything else you liked, lately?" Poe asked. "Yes. I haven't read many of your stories or Hawthorne's, but I do enjoy your stories because they keep me in suspense, too. However, they seem a little harder to understand."
"In what way?" Poe asked.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" seemed confusing because I wasn't sure what happened between the two men. Sometimes, I like being a detective and trying to figure out what has happened in the stories, so I go back and re-read the stories."
"I'm glad you enjoy my stories and want to keep re-reading them. It's important to read things over again because more things might be revealed to you as you read the stories more than once," Poe replied.
"I'll agree," Hawthorne said. "This also goes for writing."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"When you write a story, you need to revise it over and over until you are sure that you have written exactly what you wanted," Hawthorne replied.
"I think it's important, too," Poe agreed.
"I have trouble getting started sometimes," I said.
"What causes you the most trouble?" Poe asked.
"Coming up with titles."
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