All Comments on 'The Dying Hour'

This is amazing!

Absolutely beautiful; but sad. An everlasting and eternal love. Thank you.

Dad. But surprisingly good!! 5

Beautiful . . .

Thanks for the kind comments on this story. Once I had the idea of a story from the perspective of a ghost summoned back every Halloween by his heartbroken fiance to spend one precious hour together, i was going to write it in the tone of a romantic passionate liaison. But then I thought; what if they'd already met six or seven times now and they were more like a bickering married couple than two young lovers? And what if one of them was a bit clumsy? And of course as he died wearing a Halloween costume they'd have to spend valuable minutes getting him cleaned up and out of his costume before they could start getting intimate - so the whole tone on the first half the story becomes comic. The heart of the story is of course about loss and Sarah's inability to come to terms with that loss and move on so admittedly the end is a bit of a downer - but then haven't we all spent time in that dying hour at the end of a relationship?