Review: This is what perfection feels like
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2012
Within 8,000+ words, Josh Lanyon was able to capture such complicated nuances about love and acceptance and closure. It's not an easy feature, which makes this story close to perfection. Even when the scene is only Wyatt and Graham are going camping in such a perfect day, but we get everything we need to know, written amazingly from Wyatt's first person point of view. We know how they meet, how Wyatt fall in love, his insecurities since Graham's doesn't return his love back and inner contemplation about what he should do next.However, at the same time, we also understand why Graham clings so hard to the notion that he "shouldn't" move on, the survivor's guilt, the fact that he can be happy but not with Jase, anger over Jase being taken away from him in a blink of an eye, and later his contemplation about what Wyatt could mean for his life.The only niggle for personally, is a later bit of "deus ex machina" plot; an unexpected intervention that leads to the final conclusion. It's quite a common plot for this kind of issue, so I wish it has been explored differently. But other than that, this short story is a gem.