A Temporary Cure-All

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Description

Hugs have always been a source of comfort and love for many people.

For one person, a hug meant the world to him. It helped him through the darkness and the pain.

For another, hugs were something only she could gift to people who truly needed it.

Bang Yongguk

Shannon Areum Williams

Foreword

This is an entry into Tigress's Monthly Mini - July contest, which is part of her latest writing contest Fantastic Fantasy Writing Contest. Click the photo below to check it out!

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AFFOfficialAhjumma
#1
Chapter 1: I really enjoyed that brief story that I wished could have continued but it was a great one shot. I always check when I get a new reader to see if they have written any stories I can read and support. I'm glad I got to read this one and will check out the other ones too. :)
Amalya
#2
Chapter 1: Aw damn. I wish that hugs really did work like that. T_T It would be amazing! Then again, they kind of do... It just seems like with Shannon, she has a stronger ability to draw out that negative energy and, for Yongguk's sake in this in particular, that's a miracle in and of itself. ^_^ Despite the fact that this is remarkably short, you certainly manage to pack in quite a few emotions. Yongguk's anxiety is quite relatable anyway, but the way you wrote it in and touched on briefly while still moving the plot along made it feel all the more intense because of the slipping slope he was on by the end. It definitely had a full range of emotions, starting off with cutely playful and spiraling into tenseness and a darker tone before leveling out at the very end with a positive bit of hope. Nicely done and a very good play on the prompt you chose. I like that original spin you put on it especially. ;) Thanks for sharing!
-Tigress-
#3
Chapter 1: AWWWWW gosh. I love this. *pulls self back from the verge of tears to be able to think and write*
You chose hugs, and you used it to great effect. I really liked how you took the anxiety and depression that Yongguk suffers from and inserted it into this story. As someone who suffers from the latter, it is such a dark cloud that clings overhead and follows like a constant rainstorm, soaking everything in gloom and pain and just a constant... ill-content. I thought you portrayed that very well in this, and I loved that you countered it with someone whose presence and touch can filter those away. Wouldn't it be magical if that actually worked?? So I really liked that you added a sort of, well, fantasy in a way, to this prompt to make it really sing. Very beautifully done and very well written.