Because Dan checks every morning now, to see if he's missing any sugar. He checks every night for a broken lock. Every day for forty years, he finds nothing, and the gradual chipping away of hope is far worse than lack of it would have been. Years pass and Archie falls to pieces on the basement floor and Laurie goes on before him and that thread of hope grows dimmer and dimmer all the while. Then, suddenly it seems, he is an old old man, alone, dying in his bed -
It played very vivdly like one of those fast-forward sepia movie reels, a la the first thirty minutes of Up. You have such a way of saying so much with so little (seriously, the way you captured the emotion of thirty years in five sentences = genius)... SO super-envious of your writing skills. :P
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Because Dan checks every morning now, to see if he's missing any sugar. He checks every night for a broken lock. Every day for forty years, he finds nothing, and the gradual chipping away of hope is far worse than lack of it would have been. Years pass and Archie falls to pieces on the basement floor and Laurie goes on before him and that thread of hope grows dimmer and dimmer all the while. Then, suddenly it seems, he is an old old man, alone, dying in his bed -
It played very vivdly like one of those fast-forward sepia movie reels, a la the first thirty minutes of Up. You have such a way of saying so much with so little (seriously, the way you captured the emotion of thirty years in five sentences = genius)... SO super-envious of your writing skills. :P