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Hannah

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  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: 18

    So, the poem feels vacant. I don't mean that in the kind of 'haha, your form mimics your content' or something like that, but like, it feels so empty and ...

    Jul 5, 2011
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The Fisherman

    Wow. What I want to say is wow. Like, I feel like this poem needs a lot of reworking, but what you've found is a lucky combination of words that ...

    Jul 5, 2011
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Sparks and Rushes to the Head

    I don't know how to start. I'll start by dismissing the third poem. I'm sure that it was a good exercise, but a lot of word play also relies on ...

    Jul 5, 2011
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Untitled

    Hello, rememberme! I know there's some kind of feeling behind these words. Even if they're not coming directly from you and this isn't your true experience, there's emotion coming from ...

    Jul 3, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Forgetting Names

    You have a lot of good reviews on this piece already, I think. I feel like, however, you can give us this story in a shorter space if you structured ...

    Jun 28, 2011
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Solstice

    Hello, hello! Here and hoping to help. On first read through: The movement is impenetrable in its regularity, yet it is not stiff. Nothing so natural could be stiff. Just ...

    Apr 4, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Hold the line, another call is coming

    So, I'm not going to reference the poem you're responding to in my critique, just because I don't feel I'm educated enough to at this point, and also because I ...

    Apr 3, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: rise over run

    HELPPANTS. I saw this tree covered with ice bending from the pressure, bending, bending, bowed, and then! Released. But I felt like I skipped over these lines: to the fall ...

    Feb 21, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Refining Fire: 10 short unrelated bits

    I really like the rhymes that you have going some of them are just a little off kilter, which gives this collection (though unrelated), a lilting feel. I especially like ...

    Dec 8, 2010
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: demons (prose poem)

    Well it LOOKS pretty in the attachment. I don't know, my friend. It doesn't speak. It tells me a lot of things and at the end it reverts to cheap ...

    Oct 23, 2010
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Removed for Editing

    Hey, Flumicakes. This was a nice piece, but not very memorable. It seemed to arrive and pass without leaving a mark, but I feel like it reached out at the ...

    Oct 13, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: All I'm Asking For

    Hello! Congratulations on your first poem, my friend. Let me give you a few pointers, though. We all start with poetry like this. I had a notebook full of it ...

    Sep 29, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: My Worst Memory

    Hello, 300! Welcome to YWS. Be sure to get out there and review! Well, let's take a look at your story. Ignoring grammar or style, the plot seems to be ...

    Sep 29, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: Saving Matty [1]

    Hello, Classy. After reading this through once, this is what I want: I want to see the relationship (that doesn't mean romantic relationship) between Matty and Kisa more defined. They've ...

    Sep 29, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Camellia

    I enjoy the second stanza, but nothing in the first. 'sex organ blossoms' is odd, not elegant, though it should be. Petals can stretch and keep with your seductive theme, ...

    Sep 29, 2010


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