It’s very hard to put a plot and a happy ending into just 300 words. You have managed to do that, although I get the sense that there should be more to make the story complete.

It’s almost as if this is the first chapter of a longer story which you have yet to tell.

It’s like the story ended at the beginning instead of the end.

The way I would have done that - to give an end - instead of a beginning, would have been like they did in the movie Titanic. I would have brought in an old lady at the beginning and again at the end.

For example, make the brown jacket re-appear and the old lady kisses it. That would let the readers know she is still in love - at the end of her life.

Of course that’s just one idea but with imagination you could think of others to make the end an END, instead of a beginning.

Very good effort. Thank you for participating.