"What I Lost"

Vestal Review bills itself as "the oldest magazine of flash fiction."

Today's story, "What I Lost," by Dean Keller Jacobs, is in some ways a list of things lost. But it's also a story. The things go from physical objects to abstract ones--teeth and faith. The juxtaposition of the concrete and the abstract is interesting and the way all of it comes together to tell a story. For example, "I lost Dad to AA later that year. I lost myself in the bottom of his bottles."

In a short space, the story tells of lost hopes, lost loves, lost fears. It's a sad story of many losses.

In what way does the list of losses work together to tell a story? Do you find the structure of this story to be effective?