Review – Candy
Candy came about because of a short throwaway line about Jhasi’s wedding dress having a stripe.
Background
In response to a prompt about rituals, I decided to go with a renewal of wedding vows. I had already established that this event had happened, but I had not yet shown it. However, for Kevin O’Connor and Jhasi Tantharis O’Connor, the occasion is bittersweet, for she is dying.
Plot
Clockworks
Kevin and Josie prepare for May 4, 3108, a special day on Tandar Prime.
Because Piaris Syndrome is killing her, and it is going to be sooner, rather than later. So Kevin knows this and, while he is not exactly keeping the truth from Josie, he is also not in a rush to tell her, either. But Josie would have to be either a fool or too far gone to not know her fate. Furthermore, she would have to know time was running low. Very, painfully, low.
And so they perform the initial and familiar rituals of caregiver and patient, as he cleans her up and dresses her. Eventually, she asks why, and he tells her. Finally, the last moment of the story consists of of him picking her up to carry her.
Story Postings
- Candy on the Ad Astra forums
- Candy on Fanfiction.net
- and Candy on Fictionpad
- Candy on Wattpad (part of Clockworks)
- Candy in Times of the HG Wells context
Rating
The story is Rated K.
Upshot
While I like to think that I don’t write tearjerkers, this one just might qualify as one. I hope that the push and pull of Josie and Kevin feels real and not forced or manipulated. Furthermore, it is a hard story to read, at times, for this, or something like it, might be the fate of us all.
And may we all be blessed with someone as devoted as Kevin.
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