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This was lovely, Crim. Oy, it hit both lyrically and concretely. You've captured a bittersweet longing that's eerie without being creepy, and I trusted the narrator's voice right off the ...

Ahoy! This will be a bit brief, but brevity is the soul of wit, they say. So with luck and lackadaisical, it'll be wise as well as short. Set Up ...

Oy, the prose of this poem lends scraped quality to the inner dialogue: No frills. At the same time, the tangibility of the detail tilts the prose to poetry; and ...

Oy, what a brill creepy take on a family caught in nostalgia! I did not expect the twist at all. To a make the subtle trap of living in the ...

Oy, well, you included fencing, which is always excellent -- and I had to read on to find out how the physical chess of the fencing strip wove into what ...

Ha! This was a jaunty, cheerful and slyly satiric poem, and twas fun to read! Using a an aabb rhyme scheme served the tone well, and kept the pacing speedy. ...

Ahoy! I appreciated the way you've given the primary character a voice. What drew me in was their description of their surroundings. I could feel their experience: the bus, the ...

Hullo! I loved the purpose and point in this: Encouragement is often scarce in post-modern poetry and prose. There's a gentle flow from isolation to interior awareness to acceptance and ...

Ahoy there! This piece, as I read, made me think of quite a few framing potentialities. You probably know that nearly half a story is in the frame -- point ...

Hullo. Oy, what a purposeful, staccato-counter-traditional use of punctuation in this piece. You've put pauses where no "proper" pause "should" be -- and the stylistic choice rather neatly made me ...

Hey Elektra. Oy, the title caught my eye immediately. It offers a lot potential images, and leaves me wondering why ? which is a brilliant start to a story or ...

Hullo! Rather a neat way to play with a story, and I enjoyed the rhyming and meter that gave the entire thing a gentle, bouncing walk. In general, I wondered ...

Oy, there's an immediate hint of humour in this that pulled me past echoes of 1984. ^_^ So simply on the initial impression--that lightness on the edge of dystopia--I read ...

Hullo MG-- Oy, I hope you continue pursuing your writing adventures. I enjoyed the rhythm and the voice in this piece distinctly. A character's voice can be the lynchpin of ...

Ahoy B.panther! Oy, always a fun adventure with political fantasy, yes? I enjoyed reading through it, and I like that you've set up sort of an ensemble cast to intrigue ...