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  • Short Story » Mystery / Suspense, General Re: Music Box

    I'm ambivalent about this. On one hand, there's clear indication of urgency here. The mood is nailed down. It's stressful and sometimes scary to read, by this virtue it is ...

    Apr 3, 2015
  • Short Story » Romantic, Horror Re: On the Way Out

    Sweet mother of textwalls. It took me a couple of tries to start reading this. I feel like a mountain climber about to ascend the mighty Everest as I take ...

    Apr 1, 2015
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Noticed

    Truth be said, I think just these friends are partialy responsible for the kind of a man I've become. What kind of man has the narrator become? A shy one? ...

    Apr 1, 2015
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, Mystery / Suspense Re: The post-perpetual world - Quicksand

    This story has turned into quicksand and swallowed me whole. Partially in a good way, and partially in a bad way. The writing could use a little more variance in ...

    Mar 26, 2015
  • Novel / Chapter » Dramatic, Mystery / Suspense Re: The post-perpetual world - Kannan

    As with most of my reviews as of late, this one is difficult to start; I don't know just how much I can do to help this piece. The good ...

    Mar 16, 2015
  • Novel / Chapter » Dramatic, Mystery / Suspense Re: The post-perpetual world -Ning

    And eventually learnt to accept it. Says the heroine, spending the rest of the story not being able to accept it. Wait, that sentence meant she accepted her dreams, but ...

    Feb 24, 2015
  • Short Story » Literature, Literature Re: The Second Reason I left

    You've got a couple of missed commas and run-on sentences, feel free bug me if you'd like me to do a second pass to sort them out. Right now, the ...

    Feb 6, 2015
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, Politics Re: To Boldly Return - Chapter 1

    I have landed on an alien planet. I see balumps gamorphing, amirs rubbing themselves during their monthly musth, and pheeners pervojerating gaily, when all of a sudden the gailek arrives ...

    Dec 8, 2014
  • Short Story » Science Fiction, Dramatic Re: Cullet Castle (Part 1)

    This piece is beautiful in a number of ways. It is a well-written, imaginative story that managed to capture me as soon as it got the chance to spread its ...

    Oct 28, 2014
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Fanfiction Re: Monachopsis | Prologue [Revised]

    Well it's almost 3 in the morning, I can't sleep, and this story is doing wonders to send me on my way to bed. Beautiful descriptions of everything, really poetic, ...

    Aug 11, 2014
  • Short Story » Literature, General Re: And where exactly is it that we're heading? (Urgent Nitpicks Needed)

    As you asked for nitpicks, I'll get them out of the way first. He let his eyes travel from the book to the clock in the dash, which showed 1:21 ...

    Jun 27, 2014
  • Short Story » Dramatic, Action / Adventure Re: Angel of War

    This story seems to be describing a being of great power. Are beings of great power usually so concerned with how they look that they spend a paragraph describing themselves? ...

    Jun 19, 2014
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Biological Warfare

    Very good. I really didn't see the twist there; I found myself saying out loud, "holy crap!" when I saw Terence do the unkind things he imagined doing to Mr. ...

    Jun 17, 2014
  • Short Story » Mystery / Suspense, General Re: Flirtatious Glances, Secret Desires (Excerpt)

    My first thought on this piece echoes another review left by a friend elsewhere : ...this seemed ineffective. I say it's ineffective because this strikes me as the climax of ...

    Jun 17, 2014
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Suppressed Grief

    Looks like Terence is getting some character development in this installation. From a brooding, grim-reaper figure we're accustomed to, a crack on the head breaks his mental seals and he ...

    Jun 16, 2014


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