1.) It went from 'us' to 'me'.
2.) Death got the best of me.
3.) "I am okay," spoke the liar.
4.) Returned home; Never really came back.
5.) Love was everything, death meant nothing.
#2 intrigues me because it is clearly said by a character who is dead. This reminds me of the importance of voice and POV in microfiction--here is where you immediately get into character, as opposed to a longer piece, where one can linger on atmosphere and setting. I am not sure if I like #4 or not. It's a bit ambiguous, but that seems intentional (I'm thrown by the "came back" rather than the "went back")but I'm reading that in a particular way--in the narrator's mind, they are still at home even though they may geographically have come back. Does that make sense?
#2 intrigues me because it is clearly said by a character who is dead. This reminds me of the importance of voice and POV in microfiction--here is where you immediately get into character, as opposed to a longer piece, where one can linger on atmosphere and setting. I am not sure if I like #4 or not. It's a bit ambiguous, but that seems intentional (I'm thrown by the "came back" rather than the "went back")but I'm reading that in a particular way--in the narrator's mind, they are still at home even though they may geographically have come back. Does that make sense?
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