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  • Poetry » General, General Re: Verdigris

    It looks like you left out the word "to" between "wanted" and "know" on line 5. I really enjoyed reading this out loud. The rhyming is there, but doesn't feel ...

    Dec 13, 2012
  • Short Story » Narrative, Dramatic Re: Rooftops, Tall Tales, and Cigarettes.

    Oh, well I thought that the first line being "his name was Edwin" was a good hook. And no problem!

    Dec 6, 2012
  • Poetry » Realistic, General Re: Drinking the Day

    Jul 14, 2012
  • Poetry » Realistic, General Re: Drinking the Day

    Jul 14, 2012
  • Poetry » Romantic, Other Re: This Love is Not Magic

    Just some nit picks The future is uncertainty, - either change uncertainty to uncertain or add an "an" before there’s us, and there’s enough. - there's enough should be that's ...

    Jul 13, 2012
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Color Blood

    I've never really called myself a fan of poetry, but I like this. The only grammatical error I saw was in the second line where unnatural should be unnaturally. You ...

    Mar 27, 2012
  • Short Story » Mystery / Suspense, Romantic Re: Bloody Raven

    My comments will be between double parenthesis I suddenly woke up. I was breathing raggedly. I was not even wondering why such a dream occurred to me. Why? Because I ...

    Mar 27, 2012
  • Short Story » Dramatic, Realistic Re: A Broken Picture

    I really liked reading this. I like how you began and finished with nearly the same paragraph. It gave this a good sense of cloture. However, there were a couple ...

    Mar 4, 2012
  • Short Story » Politics, General Re: Raison d'etre

    This piece is interesting. I feel as if the message that is being sent is that the 1990s generation is a generation of sheep and there are only a handful ...

    Feb 23, 2012
  • Short Story » Realistic, General Re: no more

    Thanks for the advice. Great advice. I've been considering reducing the husband's long speaking role in the last third of the story and shortening it so to make his description ...

    Feb 20, 2012
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Cherry Pie

    Also, if you have the time, could you read one of my stories? I would rather have an opinion than thorough, grammtical corrections.

    Feb 18, 2012
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Cherry Pie

    I really enjoyed reading this. Definitely one of the better stories I've read on YWS. I liked how you built the suspense with the flashbacks while supplying the final act ...

    Feb 18, 2012
  • Short Story » General, Realistic Re: Wanderlust.

    I feel like this story is incomplete. It is written well and has good flow and structure (maybe to much structure as Shinda says), but it seems as if this ...

    Feb 18, 2012
  • Short Story » Realistic, General Re: It Got To Him

    -didn't mean to post this as a reply to Jas

    Feb 14, 2012
  • Short Story » Realistic, General Re: It Got To Him

    You mentioned the pill problem in the introduction and the conclusion, but very rarely and vaguely mentioned anything about it throughout the rest of it. I know that we are ...

    Feb 14, 2012


Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
— C. Northcote Parkinson