I loved the contents of the box-- all of the emotions/betrayals/pain that aren't tangibles but are more important than physical things.
I guess there's a hidden meaning there that I just kinda spelled out, but... I'm wondering if the hidden meaning was an apology, and I feel frustrated for anyone who has to deal with a person like this. Especially one who decides he wants to commit and reunite a year-and-a-half later.
There's so much ache here, and part of me thinks that the narrator should have refused the guy... but the other says that it would not be the choice that matches her nature if she did. Heart first, intellect second, and the heart still loves.
Which, of course, is how all vampires get into our houses. I appreciate the fact that this story took a symbolic twist at the end. The box with all the parts of the former life was, of course, symbolic in itself, but that it ended up containing her heart was a neat reality shift.
The box in your story is not heart shaped, but this is the song I thought of:
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I guess there's a hidden meaning there that I just kinda spelled out, but...
I'm wondering if the hidden meaning was an apology, and I feel frustrated for anyone who has to deal with a person like this. Especially one who decides he wants to commit and reunite a year-and-a-half later.
There's so much ache here, and part of me thinks that the narrator should have refused the guy... but the other says that it would not be the choice that matches her nature if she did. Heart first, intellect second, and the heart still loves.
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Which, of course, is how all vampires get into our houses. I appreciate the fact that this story took a symbolic twist at the end. The box with all the parts of the former life was, of course, symbolic in itself, but that it ended up containing her heart was a neat reality shift.
The box in your story is not heart shaped, but this is the song I thought of:
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