She Asked Her

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My second critique ever! YAY!
I will be really brave now and critique a six-word story.... I'm afraid my words will number more than yours, though!
What grabbed me about this piece, and what prompted me to write this critique, is the use of the word 'cut'.
Normally, people say 'newspaper clippings' or 'newspaper cuttings'.
The way you have written it has SO much more impact, for me anyway. It highlights the act of cutting, which is quite brutal really.
To me, this gave the piece a brutality and finality that the use of other words would not have achieved! It did not matter what the subject that prompted the message was (perhaps a refusal of marriage, rebuttal of advances, denial of guilt, rescinding of a deal.... it does not matter).
What mattered was the finality of the message and the denial of a chance of reply. I could vividly imagine the receiver reading this and empathise with their despair and loss.
I really could not think of an improvement. First, I thought perhaps to change the full stop at the end of the first sentence to a ':' to improve flow, but then I decided against it. It would diminish the finality of the last statement.
Well done! and thank you for sharing.