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[keppiehed]

Title: Gone From Sight
Author: Keppiehed
Word Count: 1180
Prompt: (scars) and (prove this guy wrong: Alcohol! Because no great story started with someone eating a salad)
A/N: Written for musemuggers, Challenge #513, Options # 1 and #4

Comments

[hbart]

You really can't hear something like the great stories and salad comment and not set out to prove it false, lol. I like this one. As always your characters and their emotions are spot on. It's funny how if you peel back all of the layers, most of us feel the same way about a situation, but the big difference is in how we chose to handle it, and how much of our true feelings we allow the world to see.

It won't come as a shock to you that I always wonder how I will feel when I lose a parent. While they are living, I just wish they'd go away, but I can't help thinking that once they do, it will change my mind. Time will tell. But my sister and I will totally contrast in how we handle it, just as your characters have. Well done.

[keppiehed]

I don't know if this qualifies as a "great story", but I agree ... it was too much of a fun prompt not to give it a go!

I really take it as a compliment that you find the characters realistic. I strive for that more than anything, that when people are reading my work they find that they really understand the emotions on the page. I like to explore the nuances of all of those feelings and how we react; it is of endless fascination to me that we share a somewhat limited amount of emotions as people and yet there seem to be an unlimited amount of ways that we react to those same feelings we share as a group, and the lengths that we go to to keep people from knowing what we are experiencing under the social veneer. It's amazing, and I love to write about it! As long as I can keep from being boring, I'll probably keep exploring that theme in one way or another. So keep me on track and tell me if I get moldy and blah, you hear? :)

[hbart]

Mold detector turned on ... Check.

[pipisafoat]

you're basically an emotional genius.

[keppiehed]

Aww, you! *is tickled pink* You are always so nice to me!!!