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  • Other » Spiritual, Fantasy Re: L'esprit de L'escalier

    Brilliant. ^_^ Cheers, Emilia!

    Jan 7, 2025
  • Poetry » Realistic, Culture Re: eclipse of the son

    Ah. The sun/time zone makes sense. Cheers!

    Jan 6, 2025
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, Fantasy Re: The Lost Dragon Chapter 11.3 (LMS VI)

    EDIT

    May 17, 2023
  • Poetry » Fantasy, General Re: Water Magic

    Oy, this is lovely. There's something effervescent about it, and your formatting gives it a jigging aspect, like a child skipping or the stair step play on piano keys. I ...

    Sep 4, 2022
  • Other » Realistic, General Re: Feelings

    [ Accidental post without text! Standby...re-writing...]

    Apr 14, 2021
  • Article / Essay » Satire, Culture Re: Living in a National Historic Landmark

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    Hullo! I bloody love that you paint your town with metaphors and images. Very Emily Dickinson; feels like the truth slant, and slant truths often do us the favor of ...

    Apr 1, 2021
  • Article / Essay » Satire, Culture Re: Living in a National Historic Landmark

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    Apr 1, 2021
  • Poetry » Literature, Dramatic Re: Waiting for a Day That Will Never Come

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    Ahoy! Out of curiosity, how did you feel as you wrote this? Waiting for a new idea to come, so I can be done, and walk outside to sit in ...

    Apr 1, 2021
  • Script » Other, Dramatic Re: Journeying

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    There's a lot in this that strikes archetypal chords. It raises questions; but at the same time, it seems like it's still feeling out what questions it wants to raise. ...

    Apr 1, 2021
  • Short Story » General, General Re: 026. Siamo Anziani

    Oy, I very much agree that it is threadbare, even while I think there's a certain amount of brevity that gives it its voice. How do you think it could ...

    Nov 16, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Words With Which We Say, Goodbye -Edited-

    Run-Through--[At a Runner's Sprint Pace] Oy, detail at the beginning was apt. I immediately got a tangible sense of both the mother's and daughter's character--and by that, a sense of ...

    Nov 14, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: Vetren'iy, 1.1 - Rare Word, Refuge

    'Lo CL--I can't believe I haven't thanked you for this yet. ^_^ Anyhow, thanks very much... And perhaps I'll have another few installments by Christmas Break. Oy, I would much ...

    Oct 26, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Epitomes In Pretend

    Very briefly-- I rather like what you have, if I push myself to read past all the idea , the [i]theme[/] of it. But it's rather difficult to see past ...

    May 31, 2008
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: The Epic Quest to a Far Away Land

    Hullo again Wooster... Hopping to chapters two, mostly three. ...I'm afraid I was off, last critique. I hope it was helpful all the same, and not meandering or distracted. o0 ...

    May 22, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Epitomes In Pretend

    Hello again. And you begin with characters you've already developed. Yet, dashing forward into the future, you've dropped something, I think. In both the prose and the characterisation, it skips--like

    May 22, 2008


"The trouble with Borrowing another mind was, you always felt out of place when you got back to your own body, and Granny was the first person ever to read the mind of a building. Now she was feeling big and gritty and full of passages. 'Are you all right?' Granny nodded, and opened her windows. She extended her east and west wings and tried to concentrate on the tiny cup held in her pillars."
— Terry Pratchett, Discworld: Equal Rites