One line was kind of an ouch at first read:

quote:

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Interesting and well-written story that suffers from a woefully predictable ending.

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Then when I thought about it, I realized a few things:

First, they actually read it all the way through because he got to the end.

Second, this is the first short story I have ever written and submitted and it was called Interesting and well-written.

Now, go fix the ending and send it back out.

You can only go up... most probably that is, since most people do.