Short Story / Match Light

I fail to see how this fits the category “A Creative Life.” Other then that, very good.

Brevity being what it’s all about here, I don’t think this works if you need the lengthy introduction as background.  Now if you could work up a title that would provide the necessary illumination, perhaps it would work.  

But the analogy of your life, or any part of it, as a match twice lit, that’s pretty good.  That’s pretty original, I think.  From your intro it sounds like it might have been very easy to use the cliche’ of burning a candle at both ends.  Or you might have been pulled towards lighting two on a match, but this phrase is good.  

It is also a phrase that invokes very specific imagery.  I can see the flame’s light, smell the burned sulphur, maybe even hear the match scratching across the striker.  

I’d suggest you think about the title as set up for the story.

best,

Dave

wow!!! i think that is really power how u wrote that. i think that is great and i liked ur pieace that u wrote good job keep up the good work.