A Cat on the Window Sill

As is customary, after having decided on taking a short break from writing and whatever can be linked to it, my inspiration levels got high up, and I've been having a hard time fighting with it. I've been supposed to focus on having the apartment in condition for hosting quests and for leaving it empty for a while when we are gone out for holidays. Now I finally gave up, though, and took a look at the first ever story I published in Antold Story; A Cat on the Window Sill. Now, this story is in Finnish, obviously, but this is the actual title. And it has nothing to do with cats, really.
Anyhow, to the actual point then. I've decided to use this as my first ever re-writing project.
As I've mentioned before, on several occasions, I believe, it is very difficult for me to change anything after I have put it 'black on white'. I can be writing the same sentence (or paragraph or phrase) for a good 10 minutes, in order to get it right and to put it in exactly the words that correspond to the feeling the idea in me causes me to feel. If that makes any sense. But once I'm done with that part, I very very rarely go back to it later, if it does not carry a very bad grammatical or spelling mistake, or if the idea hasn't somehow gotten distorted because of a wrong word or something. (Actually, in one story I found one of these 'mistakes' where I had simply written something wrong, since I hadn't been paying enough attention, but I left it the way it was, since it was in dialogue, and I thought - and still do - that it actually fits perfectly there. Just the sort of nonsensical thing that normal speech holds.)

Tonight, however, I was reading the story, and noticed that it has such good things in it, but it is a bit too short, so that they are not well explained (or barely at all), or seem to have nothing to do with the plot itself. I still think the story is one of the best I've written, or even the best, I don't know, so I want to give it another chance to be as great as I think it has the potential to be. I have not decided whether I want to translate it on the process, maybe redo it in English. I would like to, so that more people would have the possibility to read it. But then again... I originally created Antold Story, on a free site - I think it was Geocities when it still had the free site building option - exactly to have a good place to put this particular story on, so that my new potential friend, as she was back then, could have access to it whenever I finished a new chapter.
This was a rather heart-warming memory that had completely abandoned my mind until I started thinking about it tonight.

So, the story is about a boy, teenager, who has had a rough time in past few weeks or months or so, as he realized he was gay, broke the heart of someone he only then realized he had feelings for, and had his sister commit suicide, of which he blames himself. He then, through his only friend, finds the other boy again, and they make up. The problem is that they live in a small town where homosexuals are not exactly liked, and the story eventually ends as one of them gets beaten to death by a bunch of homophobic.. people.
There are several romantic elements, obviously, as well as drama, and even some supernatural stuff going on, especially at the end. In the new version I will try to either tone them down (supernatural stuff might get sacked) or enhance them. I will have to seriously think about this and make a lot of lists and everything, but will try to post about it later, when I come to some conclusions.