Free #20
{ Concept Garden }Title: Such a Cruel World We Live In/ O Cruel World!
Genre: Angst / Slice of Life
Plot: MC is a man whose wife died from childbirth recently, child survived
Feels resentful towards his daughter for the death of his beloved
Daughter sent to live with maternal grandparents for father is depressed
Grandfather dies a couple months later from heart attack
11 years pass, grandmother passes away
Daughter is sent to her father who grudingly allows her to live with him
MC is in terrible shape still, down alcohol like water and smokes
Daughter gradually breaks his shell, taking care of a father she never knew
Father is overwhelmed by her kindness, similar to her mother
Daughter soon develops a cough, is taken to a doctor due to it being rather severe and long lasting
Doctor reveals she has asthma and MC's smoking aggravates her asthma
MC struggles to quite smoking but still drinks
Daughter persuades him to stop and be sober when he hits a teenage girl while drunk
After accident, MC takes a full time job as a pawnbroker
One day, after a purchase, MC is polishing some antique handguns and forgets to store them
A young boy nabs one of them and pretends to play cowboys and Indians, daughter is walking with her father after shift
Gun fires but riccochets straight into the daughter, she's killed instantly
MC is distraught and grief-stricken once more, falling into the same cycle of drinking and smoking
This doesn't have an ounce of happiness in here. I'm so sorry. But I really feel a story like this would be tremendous. Because guess what? Bad things happen to good people. Like poor MC here.
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