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Nate

Creator and Owner of a Paper Airplane

  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Don't come to KY now

    A fitting poem for the time :) It hasn't gotten quite that bad yet on my campus, but it soon will be. Finals begin on Monday, but that sense of ...

    Dec 9, 2004
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Small Comforts

    Avoid using words like "to" as in "to melt away soft cotton." The line works better as "melting away soft cotton." In the third stanza, third line, changed "pressed" to ...

    Dec 9, 2004
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: No One

    Short but sweet. I'd suggest, though, adding in a line between the end of the poem and the dedication. And since I'm not sure if everyone here knows what Columbine ...

    Dec 9, 2004
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: The Box

    I like the metaphor here and the way you employed it in the poem. The ending is really good too; it serves to point out a good moral. There was ...

    Dec 9, 2004
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Finals

    I love this! Especially since this is exactly how finals week is. You have that one, special hour of the day when you can actually play your stereo or turn ...

    Dec 8, 2004
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The Boy Who Swallowed the Universe

    The ending was kinda corny, but I loved the rest of the story. It was very folk-talish and it definitely captivating to read. I felt myself drawn to it as ...

    Dec 7, 2004
  • Short Story » Action / Adventure, General Re: White Bandit

    I really thought I had commented on this long ago... guess not. It's a good story, but it needs more. Right now, I don't care about the brothers, and I ...

    Dec 7, 2004
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Suzhou

    *bump* forgive me!! *shakes fist* I'll forgive you this time! :D It's quite alright actually; I do it all the time ;) I really liked this. The one thing that ...

    Dec 7, 2004
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Post-Election poem, "Screams" 13+

    I really liked it; the repitition of certain words was done well and you have a nice flow going throughout. I also like how it can be adopted to either ...

    Dec 7, 2004
  • Other » General, General Re: Task

    I liked it... your style really makes the point of the girl being rushed. The internal questioning also really serves to impress on the reader a feeling of helplessness within ...

    Dec 3, 2004
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Forever Waiting

    Some of your lines are really good, such as "A butterfly suspended on a petal." It says a lot without being verbose. The poem as a whole definitely brings about ...

    Dec 3, 2004
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Helping Jaclyn

    I like the idea of the story and you develop it pretty well, but it needs more fleshing out. This is actually something that could easily be ten, twenty pages. ...

    Nov 30, 2004
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Over 13: Stupid Cat!

    Lol, good job. Definitely humorous with real style! Not sure if "crumby" is spelled correctly though; I think it's crummy or something like that, but I'm not sure. Also, be ...

    Nov 30, 2004
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The Past

    I really liked this. The past is viewed abstractly, yet with a definite personal quality; it almost comes off as sounding personified. However, you need to go through and grammar ...

    Nov 29, 2004
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Indigo

    Wow... This is excellent. Your structure and descriptions are flawless, and there are so many lines here that are just plain awesome; my favorite being "in the twilight shadows of ...

    Nov 25, 2004


The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
— Viktor Frankl