I love the atmosphere you setup just through interesting dialogue.

Yay, more sin, sex, guilt, and ridiculing dialogue! Soon, we shall infect all of Ficly!!

@Epona, have at it, write away.

@THX: scantly to scantily.

For me, if a story conveys a strong tone and it has prequels/sequels, and I’m drawn to reading them, then the author has done their job. I was a little disappointed to see none.

If there’s an element of unique speech I usually don’t consider writing a sequel/prequel, I’m afraid of not being able to carry that element through. The personality of the piece may be too unique and that I wouldn’t want to disrespect.

Great dialogue, as others have noted, and a marvelous, grimy Dickensian feel to it. The mention of the sea breeze is a nice atmospheric detail that enriches the setting in an unobtrusive way.

I kept picturing 19th century London, for some reason.

I’d have to agree with most everyone. Dialogue was nice, unique, intriguing. Atmosphere was as unsettled as the young man seemed to be.

Nice story.