Hey harry, check out that ‘write a sequel’ button.

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Harry,

You are a good writer. What you need is a good editor. You took seven stories to tell what should have only taken at most three.

My suggestion for the future is to consider what you are trying to tell in the story and then condense, edit, trim. It isn’t about using the maximum number of words to convey the meaning, but to distill the meaning into a size the package will hold.

now this is the bulk, the meat of the whole thing. You could have definitely whittled it all down to three ficlies, easy. The dying dog, the girl’s feelings, and the death of her sister, bang, three ficlies, and a metaphorical pet.

this was something i had already written. i just copied and pasted. thanks for the suggestions though, trimming stories is one of my weaker points.