The Official Writing Challenge
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Your story reveals how sad it is when parents divorce and still try to put up a happy, united front. I think it would have been a little easier to follow if you showed the viewpoint of only one main character--the mother of the daughter. You did show the daughter's sadness well.
Children often times know more than we may think. You've captured the sadness very well.
08/23/08
I really liked how Marcy turned out really to be the main character and the only one not involved in the charade. There was some confusing parts where I had to read twice to figure out who you were talking about, at the beginning of the story.
08/23/08
How sad! Divorce destroys so many people.

This starts out in Elena's POV, and then switches to Marcy's POV, and the title is really about Charles...it's best, in ultra-short fiction, to pick one POV only.

You're a good writer, and there's a lot of great "showing, not telling" in this story.