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  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Bridge of Sighs

    Oooh, nice. It's amazing how much the drop of names can add so much meaning to a piece. If you had put in any other names in there, names that ...

    Sep 1, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: The Broken Crow (Chp. 1, Part 1)

    Hey-oh! Ooh, a hero who shoplifts. Interesting. I wanna see how this all goes down. A few questions that popped up: Does he have a computer to deal with this ...

    Aug 31, 2010
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: The Things I Thought Before I Died: Part One

    Hey-oh! I must say, your title really drew me in. I wanna know how the whole story comes down to that! Very nice hook. I agree a bit with kakagirl ...

    Aug 30, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: #005 (The List) *edited*

    *likedy like like* I kinda agree with Snoink that the killing comes the heck out of nowhere really suddenly. A month after what? The broken wrist? You stop at just ...

    Aug 29, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fanfiction, General Re: Whales (Unfinished Comedy Essay)

    Hey-oh! I had a dream about whales last night. A sign? Also, if you look at the word "whale" long enough, it begins to look misspelled. 'Tis strange. All righty, ...

    Aug 27, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Postmortem

    *like* *like* *like* *a million times like* A few tiny-small nitpicks: word colonel is I'd suggest putting "colonel" in quotes, since the speaker is talking about the word as a ...

    Aug 16, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Watching The Sky Burn #1

    This reminded me ever so much of Neverwhere . It's not the same genre and is it's own story entirely, but the general flavor of it felt rather Gaiman-esque. Me ...

    Aug 14, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Bug Defines Herself and Names a Buttercup Boy

    Is... Is that it? Please tell me that there is more! *begs* Seriously, I really liked this. I've seen attempts (some of which were mine) at "whimsical" that just fall ...

    Aug 12, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Cutting the Feet From Under You

    Hey-oh! Review time! The Great Wall of Text It looks like it's YWS's fault more than yours, but the text is all jammed together in a big wall of text. ...

    Jul 30, 2010
  • Short Story » Action / Adventure, General Re: One Eye Open

    I'm a little confused as to why the first few paragraphs had dividers between them. If they were talking about different subjects, sure, but they all seem to be connected ...

    Jul 30, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The ANZAC (Edit)

    I liked this. I liked the characters and I liked the setting. It all felt wonderfully fleshed out. The only problem I had with it was the ending. I mean, ...

    Jul 30, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Bird-Brain (Part 1) - UPDATED

    Hey-oh! Grammar-wise, there were a few issues, but overall fairly solid. Yet I really couldn't get into the story at all. Characters This was the main issue. They feel so ...

    Jul 28, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Scotch: Chapter One

    Hello there and welcome to YWS! I'm GryphonFledgling and I'll be your reviewer today! Description Dump You kinda hit us hard with the description at the beginning of the chapter. ...

    Jul 28, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Unicorn Killers

    Hokay, first off, I agree with pretty much everything Stella said. I disagree in that I was seriously confused as to who the dog belonged to. I'm assuming that it ...

    Jul 26, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Alexis and the pUffballs chapter 2

    Alrighty now... First off, you need to space your paragraphs out a bit. As is, they were getting all clumped together and making this big blocks of text that were ...

    Jul 25, 2010


Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
— Jamie Anderson