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  • Romantic Short Stories Re: When Your Heart Beats (A short excerpt)

    Hm, this is an interesting story. It's a bit hard to critique because the style reminds me so much of my own, but it'll be a nice challenge. So, in ...

    Dec 12, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Numbers

    Thank you, all! The disconnection is intentional, to symbolize kind a Cartesian duality where the anoretic doesn't necessarily feel a big connection to her own body, and the monotony of ...

    Dec 11, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Stuck with Your Conscience

    Hi! I love the message that this poem is trying to get across, like seeing into the mind of a bully. Some of the rhymes do seem a bit forced, ...

    Dec 11, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: A Home In My Heart

    Oh, this is really sweet and short and well written. I love how, for the most part, you avoid cliches. Perhaps change the butterflies-in-my-stomach line, describe it more originally, but ...

    Dec 11, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: A Night in My Town

    Hi! I really liked your poem. The repetition of words and phrases really fit. I love your style in this. There are some things I would change, but they aren't ...

    Dec 11, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Numbers

    5:00; alarm rings one, twice, three times series of beeps and blasts a pattern, still recognizable in the just-woke-up daze. 102; numbers flash too much, too much rubbing sleep from ...

    Dec 11, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Goodbye

    Thank you guys for the excellent reviews! I had experimented a bit with different words for both the title and the ending. "Good-bye" sort of slipped my mind. I think ...

    Jun 11, 2011
  • Science-Fiction Novels Re: 1.1 | The Girl in the White Box

    Hi! This chapter really pulled me in. Although there were a few mistakes and places I would have worded things differently, it was really good. I didn't really notice too ...

    Jun 11, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Live

    Hi! Welcome to YWS. I really like your poem; it's so deep! But I think the lines could be shorter. I added in places where I think there could be ...

    May 28, 2011
  • Writing Activities Re: Reverse Scrabble

    This sounds interesting. Moose.

    May 26, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: This Monster

    Hi! I like your poem. It does have pretty good rhyming; none of it seems very forced. In the second stanza, especially at the end, you lose your rhyme. I ...

    May 26, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Human, Mythology Artwork Compilation #1

    Hi! This is my first attempt at critiquing artwork, so don't take anything I say too seriously. I draw a bit, but I'm mostly self-taught and I don't really know ...

    May 25, 2011
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: The earth that was

    Oh, okay :) I didn't know there were more parts. I'm sure this would make much more sense if I had read the other parts :P Also, same for me. ...

    May 25, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: I Am Here

    Hello! Nice poem you have here. It flows pretty nicely. It could use a bit more feeling: it doesn't seem very dramatic and it seems really formal. The rhymes feel ...

    May 23, 2011
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: The Meaningless War

    Hello! I really like where you're trying to go with this; like how war costs so much in death tolls and how they're so meaningless, am I right? I just ...

    May 23, 2011


I'll admit the two turtle doves are growing on me, but there are ten birds in this house already and we both know geese are feathered bioweapons of mass destruction.
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