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  • General Fiction Novels Re: Serpent's Teeth [5]

    Wow. Wow. Okay. Lots to digest here, like last chapter. As always, Twit, your style was charming, intriguing, all that. I'm beginning to get a sense of where this story ...

    Oct 18, 2011
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: I Think...

    Ring. Ring. Oh, cliched beginning. Is that really all you can think of? My hand shot out in a flurry of motion, Right, well, guess what: at four in the ...

    Oct 15, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Order

    Don't know why, but I'm in the mood for reviewing poetry at the moment. But what I'm seeing here is not so much poetry as a crunched-down philosophy essay, or ...

    Oct 14, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Like 98'

    Nostalgia, like memories of being five-years-old, and mom turning up the tender lullabies of Van Morrison or Santana while men barbeque; mesquite smoke clinging to their clothes. The fragrances of ...

    Oct 14, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Cycle

    Right. I think it would be safe to consider this up to serial killer "snuff" (a fitting idiom). It's usually the detective character that is assigned the role of protagonist ...

    Oct 12, 2011
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Serpent's Teeth [4]

    And PS thought that she was late.... Anyway, this was a great chapter, like everyone else said. The dissection (if it can be called that) process was infinitely vivid, the ...

    Oct 11, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: Tell a joke

    Why did the monkey fall out of the tree? It was dead.

    Oct 8, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: It's Here!

    Wow, it turned out great! Nice work!

    Oct 8, 2011
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Breathe

    There is an art to shorter stories like these, just as there is in poetry and novels. Their goal is not as complex as, say, developing a character, or some ...

    Oct 8, 2011
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Imagery

    Jabz, you're awesome for reviving this! In other news, my guess, after some thought, is pumpkin, or perhaps pumpkin patch. It's almost beautiful, the way the clouds spin like pottery ...

    Oct 7, 2011
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Serpent's Teeth [3]

    ‘...and Eesh, not sure whether to capitalize this "and" or not. There're good arguments for either choice, so I guess the best thing to do would be to leave it ...

    Oct 6, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Sticky Sun

    This is great. It's one of those rare poems that not only radiate with beautiful imagery, but radiate from beneath the surface. The representations are so simple, so parallel with ...

    Oct 5, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The painting, the frame and the little things

    Eesh, forgot I owed you this one. Apropos A random word? What's the significance? We don't know the context. . Her parting word, etched in black ink on a torn ...

    Oct 4, 2011
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: Mismatch - Fragments

    I'm heeere. This was intriguing, Lava. I'm assuming that its purpose was more scientific than it was literary - "scientific," of course, meaning science-fiction-experimentalism, if you get my meaning.

    Oct 3, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: October Featured Member: joshuapaul!

    Yeah, you're cool. :wink:

    Oct 3, 2011


Anne felt that life was really not worth living without puffed sleeves.
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables