Review for April Meehan
This story was about the thoughts of Murray Bloom, and 87 year old man, as he lay dying on the streets of Baltimore.
I like the way there's no sentimentality in the story, and no attempt to soften the experience for the reader. This story seems like it would fit well under the scope of this week's writing assignment. It seems like a "true" -- maybe honest is a better word -- portrayal of death.
There are only two sugeestions I have for this story, the first is the line that starts "Far, from away, he could . . ." I tripped over this line a couple of times and had to back out of the story to make sense of it. I think it would read better as "From far away, he could . . ." The second suggestion is to clarify what happened with Sean. I couldn't tell if he'd died or if he'd just taken himself out of his father's life.

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