RE: My Dead Buddy - Finish The Story Contest - Week #53
Wow, Jadams2k18! You've treated us with such a thoughtful ending.
We're given an immediate shift of tone with your introduction of a cozy atmosphere. Perhaps through a mystical power of La Sentinelle or by the grace of Hector's caring and connection to Hugo, the lighthouse keeper is granted comfort and a few answers in what he thinks is his final moments.
Through your piece, Hugo's past, his time in service, friendship, the woes of returning home to find the live he knew as gone as the man who he'd been, all come to light. Hector, a true friend, gives guidance as strong and full of hope as the beacon of La Sentinelle.
"You learned how to destroy, now learn how to rebuild"
Love this!
With Hugo's awakening at the top of the stairs and the passage of the storm, we're left with lighter hearts and a smile as your story ends with the returning of the beacon's light and a future of possibility ahead.
Congratulations on receiving a well deserved vote for your story from the Curie Community!
Thank you so much for those nice and pleasant words.
It wasn't easy to create the story. But I'm glad you liked it and so is Curie. I wanted to make the storm look like an allegory to what Hugo felt inside. And once his emotions are cleared up, the storm ceases and gives way to a new life. Because epiphanies are immediate, you don't need a whole life to understand a meaning, but as the light when you turn it on, everything is clear immediately. Maybe the goal is not achieved but he has now the path to reach it
May the force be with you