My word, this is striking. You are a phenomenal writer. I think you capture so well the sharp edges of grief, all the minutia of loving and living with and losing someone. I can't decide if the end is comforting or horrific and I love that. I think there's a tiny ribbon of hysteria that runs through the piece that blurs the distinction between those two things.
...*infinite glee* Um. Yeah. Thank you very, very much. I was particularly worried about the portrayal of that kind of loss, since it's not something I've ever experienced, and also the ending, because I wondered whether it was too much, and now I'm -- less worried! :'DDD Anyway. So. Um. <3, yes.
I have absolutely zilch idea how I would go about getting this published even if I were more confident about the quality, lack of rough edges, structure, etc. than I am. But your compliments, they make me glowy inside.
That always kills me when people can so perfectly capture things they've never experienced (of course, if they couldn't I guess we'd get no space pirates or Organutan Librarians, but still.)
It kills me when people tell me my imagination works. :D But yeah, most of my favorite things are a result of realized speculation. Which is just as well. No space pirates, no Librarian?? How would the universe get on without them? (And by 'the universe' I mean 'I'. Wait, what?)
*blushes* Give me a hacksaw, and I'll test that theory...
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Are you submitting this stuff? GO GET PUBLISHED!
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I have absolutely zilch idea how I would go about getting this published even if I were more confident about the quality, lack of rough edges, structure, etc. than I am. But your compliments, they make me glowy inside.
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You have a gift. And it is not death.
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*blushes* Give me a hacksaw, and I'll test that theory...
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Glad you liked, though.
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