Saccharine Pukeworthy

Ahhh... sweet stories, touching stories, stories with morals of kindness and love, tales of poor boys who've turned into doctors, of young love parted but never lost, of little girls warning against drunk drivers, of hard work overcoming all the odds.

EEEEYUCCCHHHKKK!!!

Does anyone feel the aversion that I do to stories such as these? What is it in my nature that makes me so hard hearted? But there is something in stories that have been written to tug so deliberately at heart strings, embellished with details of extraordinary hardship, blossom like beauty and noble courage, to ensure that you don't just see the deeper meaning... but that it is bludgeoned into your poor eyeballs as they cringe towards the back of your head.