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  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Dragonmaster Prologue *REVISED*

    Before I get into the review proper, a couple of things: Why is there a prologue in the first place? Is it absolutely necessary to understand the story? If so, ...

    Jun 1, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: I Forget My Age.

    Quite honestly, I don't know what to make of this, and not in the good way. What were you trying to say with this? Your message is completely scattered into ...

    May 31, 2011
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Deleted 12

    waiting for the haunting hum of the heart’s last gasp. "Gasp" and "hum" don't quite mesh to my ear or mind. Gasps are so much harsher than hums, which are ...

    May 24, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Help the Peeps

    A Peep , the candy of Spring, is the one candy that can wind up stuffed between couch cushions or (I think this works better and makes for easier understanding ...

    May 17, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The Good Earth

    as my mother could not determine a more suitable place for her to bear her first child. I wish not to know a day in which I do not feel ...

    May 17, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Summer Will Suck.

    I am loopy from a combination of a whole lot of things like pain and lack of sleep. You have been warned. ignoring the obnoxious come-ons of a certain noxious ...

    May 8, 2011
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Fighting For The Words

    The rhythm in this was quite off. For example, in this stanza: But only to burst, On my pearly whites, Draining down my throat, Gone like the sun, at night. ...

    May 5, 2011
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Tillamook

    I have missed your fiction so much (I prefer it over your poetry, truthfully), words fail to describe the glee I felt when I came across this piece. And then ...

    May 5, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Ardently

    There was a truce in your hands, nails blue, soothing my inflamed skull while snow drift conversations blew into my eyes. This stanza caught my eye right away, and I ...

    May 5, 2011
  • Lyrics » General, General Re: Ebony Road

    Hey there, and welcome to YWS! Before I begin my review, I'd like to point out that the formatting need some fixing. Since YWS has a plain-text editor, you'll have ...

    May 4, 2011
  • Short Story » Action / Adventure, General Re: Another Obnoxious Blade

    As classy and silent have already mentioned, the character's self-castigation and guilt felt a bit repetitive because there was so much, and it wasn't until almost halfway that you revealed ...

    May 4, 2011
  • Other » General, General Re: I'm Sorry...

    You might be interested to learn (if you didn't already know) that the four temperaments — Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, and Phlegmatic — have been around for a very long time, ...

    May 4, 2011
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: magnets

    Fellow Nudibranch! I hail you! And send a review your way in the glorious name of our team. ;P --- Normally when I point out spacing, I'm telling folks that ...

    May 4, 2011
  • Lyrics » General, General Re: Fiends of Fire

    This started off quite good — you had a definite rhythm and the rhymes didn't feel forced — but then you lost the flow and it became obvious that the ...

    May 2, 2011
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: 7 Ways of Looking at a Saguaro

    I have to agree with Rascalover — this felt entirely too disjointed, and there was nothing in each and every part that said "describing a saguaro". In particular, in one ...

    May 2, 2011


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— Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane