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  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: A Resignation (For Three-Pronged Contest)

    "Three-pronged"? :P I shall leave the grammar pickings-apart and the spelling crossings-out to the other, more capable reviewers of this site, and instead dive into the meat of the story. ...

    Nov 22, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Befriending an Inferno

    Catain touched two fingers to the nose of her large horse, pushing firmly. In response, Mistbreath whinnied softly and the girl allowed herself a smile. [Why "allowed"? Is there a ...

    Nov 21, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Memento Mori

    This is my first story on YWS, so be nice :P Haha. Here goes: Is this what death feels like? Kerenza had thought it happier, or more carefree. Rolling over ...

    Nov 21, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Red Robes

    This is for the Magic Realism contest! I whistled slightly , looking out the mouth of the cave. A flicker of light came from there, but the area around me ...

    Nov 21, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: The Forger's Apprentice

    Apologies for getting back to this so late. I wanted to re-review the edited version, to see now if it made more sense to me. As with my previous review, ...

    Nov 20, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: By Blood (Contest entry)

    I'll start off by saying that this is very well written in terms of quality of prose, and the characters are quite nicely developed. The first scene was interesting and ...

    Nov 20, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: The Unicorn (contest entry)

    Whatever doubts I may have had at the beginning, they all scattered like clouds from a warm, shining sun: the village before me was in dire trouble, with none to ...

    Nov 19, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Munera - 6

    Goddamn. Every time I sit down to try and review one of these things, I just can't make myself say anything bad about them. This is weird because I usually ...

    Nov 19, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Photo

    Umm.... Not to be mean or anything, but I read this somewhere else on the Internet a year ago (4chan to be precise). This is a pretty famous urban legend.

    Nov 17, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: The Forger's Apprentice

    Great short story! You particularly excelled at creating your characters. I'm not positive whether the MC (I'll just call her that, since we don't find out her name) is bitter ...

    Nov 14, 2010
  • Writing Tutorials Re: How to Get Rid of Talking Heads

    I largely disagree with this article. "Talking heads" are not at all bad if you can write the dialogue well enough. I do enjoy reading the occasional work that's thick ...

    Nov 11, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Alezrani Chapter 6(Summary Included)

    Well, I've still got a lot of questions, but I'm going to back down for a while and judge this chapter on its own merits. If I turn off the ...

    Nov 11, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Alezrani Chapter 4(Summary included)

    I'm so confuuuuuuused! You are giving us so much information and so many names, but it's all very fragmented. I can't wrap my mind around what's going on. It almost ...

    Nov 11, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Alezrani Chapter 3(Summary included)

    This is a summary/synopsis of the previous chapters. [...] He finds an anomaly on a planet called Zeyaethay. He talks it over with his sister Crane and decides to check ...

    Nov 11, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Alezrani Chapter 2(Summary Included)

    Hmm. I thought this was going to be a fantasy novel, so when I read talk of multiverses, I was a little bit surprised. You should be careful with introducing ...

    Nov 11, 2010


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