Subject: Re: [FFML] [ff] it's short, very short
From: bastian@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de (Sebastian Weinberg)
Date: 10/20/1996, 5:47 AM
To: Fanfiction ML

 On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:30:15 -0400 (EDT) Neil Reynolds wrote:

: 			 Regrets after it's too late
: 
:    She looks the same as she did the last time I saw her alive. Angry, sad and
: defiant. I wish I could have told her I love her before it was too late. I
: know she loved me, I wish I could just hold her, maybe hug her, but we're
: unable to touch.

After I read this far, I thought it was another standard "Akane's
dead" fic, but I continued to read because it is so well-written. 
*Boy*, was I wrong.  (and not about the fact that it is well
written.)


:    Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like for us, if Happosai's last
: bomb killed Akane, instead of me.

Gah, You fooled me, completely!  That was a *GREAT* fic. 
Minimalist, evocative and with a *cool* surprising twist.


Sebastian
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