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Icaruss

  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Like Yoga

    I don't want to seem like an idiot, or a cold-hearted prick but this just made me roll my eyes. The simile, sure, is original but that doesn't mean it's ...

    May 18, 2008
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: A Little Murmur

    Bah. This poems are always hard because they think they're clever. I'm not saying that as an insult or as if it's something bad, but they're all about holding out ...

    May 18, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Poptart

    Oh, God. I'm going to try to be honest here without trying to be mean or unkind. I always feel guilty about writing these kinds of reviews because, after all, ...

    May 17, 2008
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Eat it up

    Oh, this is great. It is funny. Not bad funny but the rhyming and the words you choose really transmit the joy you're feeling. Like, we're happy about the fact ...

    May 17, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Epitomes In Pretend

    That was good. I mean, there are a couple of things I would change, but overall it's a good little piece. The idea you had about the glass being filthy ...

    May 17, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: 042. Tinfoils, Earth Sans Soil [rewritten]

    I struggled to read this. It felt like a chore. Now, that doesn't necessary means it's bad, it's just not my kind of story. And it's not the plot, or ...

    May 16, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Carson Layne's story

    This was fantastic. You have the voice of a really hard-boiled police procedural writer. The dialogue is good, and feels authentic, which is the most important thing. You don't have ...

    May 14, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Contemplations of a Tomboy

    Observasion NĂºmero Uno: When you begin a piece this way, it either works or it doesn't. When it works, it usually just gets a chuckle out of the reader. I ...

    May 14, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Questions

    This is hard for me to review this. Yeah, it is sweet. Of course it is sweet, but everybody can be sweet, right? And is it well written? It's not ...

    May 13, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: First Drink

    It's a nice description and a fairly interesting take on alcohlism, but I must argue whether that first drink is really that special for anybody who drinks. I mean, considering ...

    May 12, 2008
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Something Exciting that Happens to Be Untitled

    Wow. I was surprised by this. Seriously... Just, wow. I mean, I love how you give as a deep, vivid description of your life in such few verses, how you ...

    Dec 21, 2007
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: Bad Breakup Gone Good

    Jesus Christ, man. You need to use commas. Punctiation. Something. I'm drunk right now, and most of your sentences make no sense when I first read them. "Hey Jenna had ...

    Dec 18, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: How You Break My Heart (Chapter 1)

    I don't care. I'm pretty drunk right now, but that's not of relevance. Look: Whenever people write characters that are little kids, five years old, four years old, they always ...

    Dec 18, 2007
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The Heart of the Heavens

    First of all: this is all over the place, and that's good. I like how you dance through insignificant events, descibing them abruptly, then switching to the next one. That's ...

    Dec 18, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Romantic, General Re: The Gun Party

    There's one problem: This girl is describing what happened to the police, right? "The sky was jet black, and filled with twinkling stars"? "His deep blue eyes reflected the pearly-white ...

    Dec 14, 2007


Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
— John Milton (Poet)