I just realized I’d read this piece of yours (which I failed to comment on). Perhaps because this excellent short story could have been written by my children - or any of my nephews I recognized it so strongly.
As someone who finds it impossible to be succinct, I admire your ability to create such feeling in only one small short story. Fully captured all the emotions, not to mention the Christmassy-ness of it!
In a short time you perfectly conveyed the mood of melancholy. This was a pleasure to read.
Thanks so much.
I'm reading this in July but can smell the cinnamon and hear the jingles.
"She is and is not who she was." Still, he's going to be thinking about her for several weeks, if not months.
Nice work.
I just realized I’d read this piece of yours (which I failed to comment on). Perhaps because this excellent short story could have been written by my children - or any of my nephews I recognized it so strongly.
Thanks so much.
Nice flow.
Great stuff Robert, really building up well toward a revealing incident of poignancy and melancholy.
Prose style excellent, a pleasure to read.
As someone who finds it impossible to be succinct, I admire your ability to create such feeling in only one small short story. Fully captured all the emotions, not to mention the Christmassy-ness of it!
The name comes from an old and fairly obscure Zombies song that I thought was appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNP3k5nzHas