This was a superbly written short story. The author has real talent for putting emotions into words. Even though the story was over before I knew it, I deeply felt the characters' regret, pain, ANGST!, fear, trepidations...everything so vividly.Jackson and Paul were perfectly made for the friends...
Drinks flowed, songs were sung, the table next to us ended up unofficially joining our party, then we merged with the one next, joining forces against those opposite as we got sucked into a good-natured karaoke sing-off. Elaine talked Ryan into accompanying her for a terrible rendition of “Paradi...