Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Last Rites and Resurrections by Martin Simpson

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Posted by MaryRobinette (Member # 1680) on :

I was researching markets and stumbled on this short story on their website. I think it's brilliant.

http://www.ttapress.com/wwwTTAPRESSwhite/Last.html

Posted by GZ (Member # 1374) on :

It's a very quietly elegant sort of story. I was hooked in at the start of the second paragraph, and then it sort of slowly build from there. Nice mix of the speculative elements and a more mainstream storyline.

Thanks for sharing, Mary!

Posted by djvdakota (Member # 2002) on :

Beautiful story!

Thanks for the link.

Posted by Netstorm2k (Member # 2279) on :

Sad and beautiful, with laughs in all the right spots.

Posted by HuntGod (Member # 2259) on :

That was very melancholy and poignant.

Thanks, now I wanna go home and hug my wife and kids :-)

Posted by MaryRobinette (Member # 1680) on :

Yeah. I got to the last line and tears just welled up. It was inevitable and yet took me by surprise, know what I mean?

Posted by Silver3 (Member # 2174) on :

Yeah. I think you're so caught in the story that you suspend the analysis, and even though the last line is inevitable in retrospect it still sounds fresh and poignant. Probably one of the reaons why the story is so...I don't know. Complete, if you know what I mean. Sad, but it doesn't leave you with a sense of something left hanging.