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Ok, first I get this croaky batman voice with this insulting tone that would just make me walk away if this was a normal person. But I stayed because aparantly there was this message that you wanted to portray.
The story is that Larry is a criminal defense lawyer, and he is dying, and he regrets what he hasn't done in his life. This is portrayed by cheesy and half-baked metaphors that he groans out whilist not driving out onto a bridge, which pretty much exists for symbolism alone, and this is not a good idea in writing, honestly. Then he randomly shoots up into space and I guess he wanted to be an astronaut or something...look this was just not thought out. You're trying to make something meaningful but that's just it: You're just trying to make something meaningful.
How many times have I heard the phrase "Live everyday of your life as if it was your last"? This moral is so overused and understood that it's almost dead as a story or literary moral, and believe me, I understand what it's like to want to make something incredible, but first you have to ask yourself what IS incredible? What do I want to do in this story that I think is the most important thing? Really, I give you a seven for effort but this thing is half-baked. My overall impression is a cheesy, cheesy, cheesetastic, cheesarific cheesefest.
"Sold my soul to the devil" No. Unwarranted poetry.
"Isolated...like there's only a bridge between me and the world" Oh, so I have to be a bum-ass criminal defense lawyer to feel lonely? I'm a teenager still, and I've felt worse crap than that.
"Better choices...dream who I could've been....blah" Who the hell hasn't? Look, I'm pretty sure 90% percent of the populace understands that if they knew then what they knew now, they wouldn't have made that choice back then.
"I could've been an astronaut" I literally lol'd at this. This was just the apitome of artistic ineptitude. Was this intended as a sort of reaching out to all men who are in thier mid-life crisis, or was this intended as some sort of backstory?
I'm sorry man, this just doesn't work.
"(Any example of random irony)"