Excellent work, Lynn. You showed us her tragedy without wallowing or being maudlin. I envisioned a girl of about fifteen in this story who will miss her parents and her brother for the rest of her life. We don't even know what happened, just that it was probably abrupt, and it's still too raw for her to say the words even to herself. I had pinpricks in my eyes at the end.
I wish I could have learned how to write like this when I was younger.
