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Final Goodbye  [13+]
A love story
by Ẃeβ࿚ẂỉԎḈĥ
Review of Final Goodbye  
Review by Beholden
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
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Review of Final Goodbye by Ẃeβ࿚ẂỉԎḈĥ

It's a love story, just as billed in the description, and contains a tragedy that is yet common to so many of us in the end. The sad thing is that all love stories end this way and this is also what makes it hard for me to review this piece. Is it story? I return again and again to the question as I'm reading; is there enough in here to warrant the classification as story? And it's not helped by your choice of genre selection - Contest Entry and Other tell me nothing.

The reason I'm spending some time on this point is that it's fairly important how we regard the piece. Presuming that it's fiction and claims to be a story, we might expect that it would include conflict and a gripping denouement. But this doesn't really have either. It develops the way reality does, with a gradual overcoming of initial shyness, from there into a romance and marriage, then a joined life until disease puts an end to the happy life of the couple. It's too real, too common to almost all of us to be something we read for entertainment.

So it's something other than entertainment. And, well written and without error as it is, it deserves to be showcased as something else. A vignette, perhaps, or a human tragedy? There surely ought to be a classification for this kind of piece - I see so many of them.

I feel guilty for centring my whole review around this one point. But that's often the problem with good pieces - it's hard to find enough to say about them to meet a word count! But I think there's truth in what I've said.

Unless my whole definition of story is too demanding of a plot and a twist.

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