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  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Have An Ice Day

    Hi Demeter! Here as requested. I must say - I like the title. :lol: Very witty. Now for nitpicks! Slowly disappearing into white fluff, a sudden flash of ice sticks. ...

    Nov 23, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The opening page to my novella

    Hey, there, IHighton! I am so ready for this. -squeals- Somehow, Laura had known it would be May who rang that time. By no means was she psychic, or in ...

    Nov 23, 2008
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: The Artist Gets a Compliment

    Hello Snoink! I have to say, I really enjoyed this poem. There was something beautiful about it concealed between the words. The picture looks like this: it is flat and ...

    Nov 23, 2008
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: My notebook

    Hey June! I've been longing to critique something of yours for ages, so here goes! (By the way, it's only with excellent pieces of work that I get nit-picky, because ...

    Nov 22, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Gossip and Lies

    The idea for this short story came to me in the shower, and I hurried to write it down. It's about how rumours can destroy somebodies life. It's partly based ...

    Nov 22, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: An Apple and a Graveyard - Chap. 11

    I know it's really short, and that's pretty inexcusable after such a long wait. But hopefully it'll tide you over until I write some more. Hi there, KJ! I don't ...

    Nov 22, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Romantic, General Re: Crazy Little Thing II

    Wh...aa...a? *lip trembles.* But I was going to get here first, I was. *hangs head in shame.* Anyway, Areida, this is even better than last time, which I didn't think ...

    Nov 19, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: The conspricy Chap. 1!!!!

    Please hold nothing back!!! I can`t get better unless I know what I`m doing wrong!! Okay; I'm not being harsh or anything. But you'd be taken a whole lot more ...

    Nov 18, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Blithe Bereavement - CH 2

    Your writing is refreshing - very original and unique. It reminds me a bit of the style in which Lemony Snicket wrote A Series of Unfortunate Events - have you ...

    Nov 7, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Until The End-Part 6

    ~Hey, everyone. Here's part 6. Negative reviews are welcomed. Enjoy!~ Alrighty! I've been reading all the way through so far but everyone's pointed out everything, so I thought I'd start ...

    Oct 31, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Until The End-Part 7

    Hello Merry (: This was an amazingly tense chapter, my eyes were glued to the words the whole time through. The tenseness wasn't achieved through blatant action happening in your ...

    Oct 31, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Untouched-Epilogue

    GAH!! I'd just written a really long review and then my computer lost it all! Darn it. I know it's short. Any ideas to make it longer? [/quote] Okay, so. ...

    Oct 26, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: My letter

    He told us to open our notebooks to a blank page and to start writing. He didn’t specify what to write about, just write . I stared at him as ...

    Oct 26, 2008
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Truth

    [/b]A slightly ambiguous if not somewhat sketchy jotting that I wrote in five minutes. An example of my terrible attempts at poetry! Almost philosophical yet rather ambiguous. Make what you ...

    Oct 26, 2008
  • Short Story » Historical Fiction, General Re: The Last Dance

    The last dance, for her, was like dancing with a broom. This is a very good, unique image to start the story with. It was stiff and very unentertaining . ...

    Sep 27, 2008


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