Tagline: When Julie met Cole, it was awash with possibility!Kate's completely subjective rating: 8
Observations: This story seems simple, but there's a lot of craft going on inside it. I'm going to just laundry-list (LOL at the pun) what I noticed.
The description of Cole was extremely sparse. It was just five words.
Tall. Trim. Tousled dark hair.
It wasn't even a complete sentence, which is great because these stories are so short, you have to cut wherever you can.
You have a meet-cute, in which he saves her from a grocery cart collision.
Matisko revealed the characters' single status in a clever way with that quilt and the convo.
The ending referred back to Julie's romance-reading grandmother, which was a detail that makes the story nice and tight.
Photo credit: liz west via Flickr creative commons license.
