Short story at the beginning of The Stars are Going Out seems out of place

The trope starts with this decent short story, but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be there. It's good enough that I don't want to just delete it. Do we have a place for stuff like this?

The trope launcher's idea, if I understand correctly, was to make a Self-Demonstrating Article.

I don't get it. To me, self-demonstrating articles are for things like Funetik Aksent or All Blue Entry: tropes that fall within the scope of text effects used for specific purposes. Writing a short story in place of an article doesn't make it self-demonstrating: it just makes it overly florid, and will have a negative impact on the users who 1) were simply confused by the unusual format, or 2) didn't enjoy the writing.

Courtesy link: The Stars Are Going Out

So should I go ahead and rewrite it?

I feel iffy about rewriting it without more discussion. The Projects Long Term/Perpetual forum has a Trope Description Improvement Drive thread; bring it up there.

Edited by DoktorvonEurotrash on May 2nd 2021 at 6:27:12 AM

Ok, it looks like someone has already taken care of it over there.