A Conversation for Someone Else’s Tragedy
There's a name for people who play with fire.
~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Started conversation Mar 6, 2007
Interesting. Curious twist at the end, clearly revealing just how deeply her own tragedy has impacted her. Also, in hindsight, the possible suggestion that she may the person who started the fire. But somehow I'm not sure you intended that interpretation.
I definitely got the message that she was deeply 'disturbed'. It comes as a surprise and quite forcefully at the end so I may have just allowed that she might be more than merely disturbed and was now truly criminally insane.
Like many of your stories in which people die or struggle with crises that take all the joy out of life I found myself squirming more than a little. This uncomfortable feeling leaves me with no defense except to be hyper-critical and I want to point out the one cliche of the 'screaming' fire engine. And even to ask why the first one screams but later they all just 'hum'. Don't they know the words? 
~jwf~
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