July 1st, 2016 at 06:36am
This is, by far, one of the best pieces I've read. You describe Rae so well, and the emotion...God. The emotion. Everything is so smooth, and it just tugs at my heart. I can't say much else, because your story is just amazing.
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This was quite sad. From the beginning I was getting the feeling that it wasn't going to be entirely happy and that maybe something had happened, and I was right. I could feel the emotion seeping out of each word that's written and the times when she was with Jimmy felt very bittersweet. You could just feel that there was something unspoken between them which weighed in each interaction, and it was such a heartbreaking truth to find out.
I really feel for Rae. A night that was supposed to be one of the happiest times of her life ends up tearing the man she loves away from her and ultimately destroys the life that she wanted. You really reinforce the desperation of Rae. She has Jimmy around and even when she realises that he's dead and what she sees isn't real, she clings to him and is doesn't matter whether he's real or not because he's there for her and she isn't ready to part with him. It's so sad.
I honestly can't find a fault with this piece. It's so ripe with emotion that it was as if I could feel what Rae was feeling, the loss, the desperation, the hollowness. This was so beautifully written