Question About Continuity in a Short Story

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All right. I have a question. I wrote this story about some kids on LSD, I don't know if its good or not but please don's make fun o f me too bad.

I was just wondering if yout think I have to change that bit about "one of my hands still holding Retch's" if I didn't mention that they were holding hands in the first place.

Any help would be appreciated, I need to submit the story by 5:00 today...

Here's the excerpt:

I’m not sure how much time passed: Minutes. Hours. Time spent gazing into each other’s eyes. I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was all planned; that a fog machine was hiding in the trees rolling this pearly vapor in. Words were exchanged but they held little meaning and were carried away by the roaming gusts. Without opening our mouths we said everything we wanted to say. Still, I couldn’t shake the memory of a girl I knew a long time ago. A girl named Rachel; she told me that she liked girls from now on. I said that her secret was safe with me.

Willy woke with a start, choking on his own snore.

“Huh?” he mumbled.

I stood there concentrating on Willy in his green flannel, one of my hands holding Retch’s. Before I could pinpoint what he reminded me of, he chuckled to himself and slapped the earth.

Colin_C., Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

If it is important for your readers to have a clear sense of how long the character has been holding Retch's hand, then you must give them enough clues to establish that sense in their minds. If the amount of time is not very important, then you're OK leaving it indeterminent.

Aimless, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even understand this sentence:

I wrote this story about some kids on LSD

StanM, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Colin's just using a bit of creative ambiguity there.

Aimless, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)


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