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Kafkaescence

  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, Science Fiction Re: Bendspace: Chapter 2

    1. Proofread it, please. 2. I was incredibly confused throughout this, so I went ahead and skimmed the first chapter. It did elucidate a few things, but even then this ...

    Jan 24, 2013
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: things we shouldn't (say)

    Glad to see your name around the forum again! Just stopping by to make a quick comment. I'm normally not a fan of undisguised love poems, as I think this ...

    Jan 20, 2013
  • Poetry » Romantic, Realistic Re: letting go

    Being with you is like a wind-up toy car If I let you go now l guarantee you’d go far Good first line, slaughtered by the fact that the next ...

    Jan 20, 2013
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Other Re: Fly

    Open Eyes. Why the capitalization? A bright light tried to get past all the tall, cascading branches around me. It tried to? What was it? Did it succeed? None of ...

    Jan 19, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, Action / Adventure Re: Worlds Apart Chapter One

    So last night I wrote a big long review on this; I came back here to check on it, and it's disappeared! Where it went off to I have no ...

    Jan 19, 2013
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: If I Became a Memory

    Poetry ain't prose. They're close, but it ain't. What you have here is a block of rambling prose disguised in the form of a poem. Granted, that's harsh. But it's ...

    Jan 19, 2013
  • Short Story » Other, General Re: Memory Re-write

    This felt rambling. The premise was intriguing, but this wasn't cohesive enough to really enforce it at all. The loosely organized thought-stream method you adopt is rarely effective in the ...

    Jan 17, 2013
  • Poetry » General, General Re: -----

    1. It's pretty scattered, for such a short poem! There isn't any distinguishable theme linking the lines together, aside from the fact that lines two and three are saying virtually ...

    Jan 17, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, Teen Fiction Re: James Volt, Chapter 2: Encounter

    Just as a heads up, I have not read the previous chapter, but I noticed you were lacking in reviews, so I figured I'd pop in. 1. You use words ...

    Jan 16, 2013
  • Poetry » General, General Re: breathing easy

    in the wash bin I shed my skin like a snake, and it was no pretty sight, let me tell you, it was this ragged wretched part of me that ...

    Jan 16, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Dramatic, Realistic Re: Chapter 1 - The Hospital (new version)

    1. the ellipses need to go. you use an ellipsis like it's a fix-all for any punctuation uncertainties, and it's not. ellipses should be used sparingly, if ever. go through ...

    Jan 16, 2013
  • Short Story » Romantic, Horror Re: Victoria

    1. the beginning was disorienting. you begin with colorful images of trees and dewy grass and a light breeze, then proceed to describe the moon and barren streets. it was ...

    Jan 16, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, Romantic Re: My Proof Of Life - Chapter 3

    i can't pretend to have read any of the previous chapters, but i still have a few comments to make. 1. tighten up on your grammar. i'm not in the ...

    Jan 13, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Horror Re: Blood and Alcopops - Prologue

    1. this is a horror piece without a home. there was only a thread of a plot for me to hold on to as the story progressed, and normally i ...

    Jan 13, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Mystery / Suspense, Mystery / Suspense Re: The Rholtaii Heritage - Chapter 4

    I remembered the strikethrough feature! The journalist was patiently waiting in the room on the first floor, having not been allowed even to go to the first floor offices Awkward. ...

    Jan 11, 2013


You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
— Rod Serling