So sad and yet so well written... I absolutely loved the discription of the sunlight on the newspaper.

*gives him a hug...

V.

*accepts and return the hug with a warm smile*

Thank you. I'm glad you like it. :)

*smiles* I'm glad you enjoyed reading it, Zodiark.

Send me a PM if you like and I'll do what I can to explain. :)

Man, but that is one of the most powerful pieces I've read in a long time. All the most so because of the brevity. Awesome.

*bows to the wolf* Thank you for your kind words. I am glad you enjoyed it.

Wasn’t ready for that one. The ending caught me by surprise as I sat here feeling the shock for several seconds. Very well done.

*bows and smiles* Thank you for your kind words. I am glad you enjoyed it. :)

Nice mood to this.
I'm impressed with how tight and efficient the writing is.

Thank you for your comment, and also for your watch. :)

I am glad you enjoyed reading the story. :)

Well-written. I liked the time references. Made the pace feel...heavy. Which is, I think, what you were going for. ^_^

~GR

Thank you for your kind comment, and also for the favourite.

You're quite right in your assertion... I wanted to emphasise the passage of every minute, that each one was somehow 'borne' by the narrator...

*smiles* I'm glad you enjoyed it. Very glad indeed. Thank you. :)

Beautiful. Heavy. Sad. You have a great talent with words. The tale is so short and so full of emotion. I feel myself touched. Great little piece, I enjoyed reading this.

Thank you for your kind comments. :)

There was a lot of emotion went into it, I have to say. I find I tend to write the kind of things that mirror my feelings, and so this sort of work tends to pop up. Interestingly, "The Bridge" - another work you kindly commented on - I wrote at about the same time as this... I'm not sure what I was feeling then. Bleak and empty, I suspect.

But - thank you for your kind words. :)

interesting. The time passing evokes to me both the unavoidable moving on of time and the efforts to avoid exactly that. Delicious tension.