Tearjerker

This award is for the scene or story that made your tears flow freely .Thanks to Joanna for suggesting this category, there's a lot of these kinds of scenes and moments out there. It'll be hard to pick one. But let us know when you just had to reach for those Kleenex, since your tears prevented you from reading further! The story must be done, unfinished stories will be rewarded next year!

And the nominees are:

Author and story	Scene/moment/story	Nominator and motivation
Cindy The Thunder Rolls at Writers Ranch	Story	bright Gah! Just Gah! wipes tears* I don't understand his decision, but I understand his pain.
Kemara Concrete Angel at Writers Ranch	Story	Laronda The tears roll and roll every time I read this story.
Mnemosyne Odysseus at Writers Ranch	Story	*bright Lou can't help but love the characteristics of the man she married, those same traits that might ultimately hurt her. Lovely little story of love's intrinsic perils.
Tracy At His Side at Writers Ranch	Story	Dee Get at least two boxes of tissues for this one! Tracy brilliantly writes such a sweet story without it becoming schmaltzy. Truly touching!
Anna I Will Be There at Writers Ranch	Story Excerpt: Oh Kid if you can hear wake up. Don’t leave me I need you,” Lou whispered wiping a cool cloth on Kid’s forehead. Kid groaned and Lou saw his eyes flicker. “Lou,” he moaned. “I. love. you,” he gasped out. “Oh Kid come on open your eyes, I love you!” Lou cried to him. Kid opened his eyes wide and smiled at her. “Hey Lou, why you crying?” Kid teased reaching up a hand to brush away a tear from her face. “Teaspoon!” Lou shouted as she and Kid exchanged kisses. The riders, Teaspoon, and Rachel all arrived to find Kid talking earnestly with Lou. Are you ok? Ike signed. “Fine don’t know what y’all are so worried about. Rachel I’m starved,” Kid looked puzzled.	Wendy M Man...I was crying right along with Lou in hoping that Kid would fight to stay with her.
Tracy The Simplest Tale at Ponnyexpressen	Story	Nesciri: This endearing tale of a horse and two unlikely friends (Cody and Buck) was amazing. The interaction between Cody and Buck was excellent and really brought forward the feeling for the characters without being too much. And the poor horse struggle - this one is a must read.
Debbie The Pull at Ponnyexpressen	Story The small group of people he had come to call family was assembled on the walkway outside the general store waiting for the stagecoach to arrive. It was a simple enough thing to do but the reason they were waiting was anything but simple, in fact it was heartbreaking. The stage was going to take him home.	Wendy M This story just really captured the anguish that Kid felt in going back to Virginia to fight in the Civil War...So sad...