Zen wrote:

At 14:56 10/16/97, Gary Kleppe wrote:

Okay, question for everyone here:

Depressing fics generally involve people dying prematurely, usually by
being blown up, stabbed, etc. In other words, they depress by having
people get killed who shouldn't. All the fics nominated for the Chicken
Ball depression award that I'm familiar with are like this (except for
one or two which I didn't find depressing at all and are probably in the
wrong category).

So are there any really good depressing fics where NOBODY dies?

OH yes.  There certainly are.  The entire run of "Thy Inward Love" comes to
mind...

Incorrect, Zen-san.  Cologne died, after all.  

BTW, since when is TIL depressing?  I personally consider TIL near the
WAFFy zone.  Think about what happens to each of the characters through
the story, and then tell me if it seems depressing to you.

(remembers Zen's Ranma-Ukyou leanings)  Um... nevermind.  ^_^;;  

Seriously, I have a couple sadfics where nobody dies... "A Man I'll
Never Be" and "Kurobara" come to mind.  I've been trying to be a nicer,
gentler writer...

Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics

Zen no Itan-sha

-- Nick