there's probably a lot more in this thread I could read back and respond to, but I want to focus on a particular point here: Calliope being "somehow responsible" for the events of the Candy Epilogue.

I think the story is asking you to apply a little more critical thinking than you're willing to exercise, here? Like, do you think the point of this plotline is that a writer should be held personally responsible if the things they write turn out to be true in another dimension? Should we just avoid writing about tough topics forever, out of anxiety that we might actually be hurting our fictional characters? Isn't that more than a little bit silly? Doesn't that tell you there's probably more going on here than your gut emotional reaction tells you?

I mean, even if Calliope WERE somehow aware beforehand that everything they wrote down were going to somehow come true, it seems like it's largely being ignored that these stories came to them in the form of visions, which they surely CAN'T be held culpable for...