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  • Short Story » General, Fantasy Re: Bold Kings

    Thanks for the review, it was very helpful! It was a great pick on "sufficiently procreative". I think I'll rework it as "fertile" which speaks back into the gardeness's profession. ...

    Mar 1, 2016
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: The Failing Light; Part One

    There is no virtue in treating everyone equally badly, and you will never be thanked for it. I would welcome an honest review on your part. Regards, Rubric

    Oct 20, 2015
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: The Failing Light; Part One

    I'm not sure you're aware, but I can see your reviews, even the one's you deleted, under the "review" tab on your wall. I can therefore see that of the ...

    Oct 20, 2015
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: The Failing Light; Part One

    Turning getting caught cheating on reviews into an uninvited attempt to evangelise has to be one of the most disrespectful, if audacious, things I have ever seen on YWS. Thank ...

    Oct 20, 2015
  • Short Story » Narrative, Fantasy Re: Diary of a Deicide, Part One.

    Thanks a lot for the review, it was very helpful. The comments about adding dates and more description in that specific mural/garden comment were particularly insightful, I'll take that forward ...

    Feb 12, 2015
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Eventide

    Also, the whole thing about Blodwyn being a sailor/ship captain confused be greatly. Is a lighthouse keeper usually on their own like that? It seems very irresponsible for such a ...

    Apr 26, 2013
  • Novel / Chapter » Horror, Science Fiction Re: Love Like Clockwork 2

    I apologise for taking so long to get to this. University commitments and such. I must say I adore your style, and am loving your characterisation; the constable and narrator ...

    Sep 5, 2012
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: Enslaved. Chapter 1 Scene 1.

    Thanks for your feedback, it's both specific and detailed. Arvad's character will develop over time but I may have tried to cut back too much. I was trying to put ...

    May 28, 2012
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: Enslaved. Chapter 1 Scene 1.

    It may come up later, but the father was essentially a representative of the village, which has to pay a tribute of slaves to the Ulusami nomads. The reasons for ...

    May 28, 2012
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Action / Adventure Re: Enslaved. Chapter 1 Scene 1.

    Scene 2 is here:

    May 28, 2012
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The Dark World Chapter 1-Indect Reasoning

    Testing

    May 25, 2012
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: That awkward moment just before you go into a magic world.

    Thanks for the input guys! I *may* have written it at five am after just having walked home and a bit drunk, so it's a bit stream-of-consciousness. That's why there's ...

    Jun 23, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: A city dies

    Thanks SaraAnne and everyone else who reviewed this work! At the moment I'm considering it to be an epilogue for Exiles, though it could find itself being a prologue for ...

    Nov 1, 2008
  • Other » General, General Re: An experiment in indirect speech.

    Thanks Meevs! I've always been interested in (and appalled by) how the West deals with moderns genocide. I would love to write about it, but don't think I have the ...

    Oct 20, 2008
  • Short Story » Historical Fiction, General Re: Last stand during the Warsaw Uprising

    You're right about the Vistula, as the uprising went from August until October, the Vistula's state would have been common knowledge. I kind of imagined it being the scout taking ...

    Aug 10, 2008


Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
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