by Love2ReadLit
But the ending leaves us wondering just what was supposed to have been resolved. I will wait to rate as it seems likely there will be succeeding chapters.
Hope you plan to continue - seems as if Joan, though she can be insensitive, is hurting badly. Perhaps David and Joan should go to dinner at Karen's place - may be a way to rejoin the living. But hopefully she won't put her foot in her mouth and further upset Karen. Karen, on the other hand, is taking a chance, and is trying to be helpful. Cute little story.
judging from the comments/rating, you've written well above your audience - not that that is a particularly high bar, in general - but I did appreciate and enjoy your thoughtful and succinct vignette of managing and maturing through sorrow, and moving beyond it, a fine example of "less is more" -
I wanted to leave this open since it was more about love between parents and children and moving on after losing love. I felt that was enough for a stand alone story. Too much more and I think the interaction would have been more awkward and overwhelming.
This was loosely based on real events and took a couple years to formulate the conversation, so I don't know if I will come back to Karen and/or Joan right away. More time to spend on other ideas...