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  • Short Story » Mystery / Suspense, Other Re: Lamp-post Christmas Murder

    Hi yubbies21, I think that this original idea was fantastic and a unique way of telling the story of a murder. The way that you wrote that the lamp-post had ...

    Jul 4, 2013
  • Short Story » Realistic, Culture Re: The Wallet

    Hi TheSoundOfRain, The way that you have written this with the use of the colloquial language creates a picture of a everyday ordinary guy, which I believe was your intention ...

    Jul 4, 2013
  • Short Story » Literature, General Re: deleted

    Hi sbitonti, I enjoyed your first paragraph a lot. Sometimes I feel the same when I'm writing. I am intrigued as to where you take this story. I hope that ...

    Jul 4, 2013
  • Short Story » Dramatic, Romantic Re: The Girl in the Cardinal Dress

    Hi, I personally enjoyed your story a lot. I was drawn into it from the very beginning. The way that you wrote it was one of the reasons I enjoyed ...

    Jul 4, 2013
  • Short Story » Dramatic, General Re: Don't Take the Highway

    Hi LJM368 Even though this story was pretty short I actually enjoyed the eeriness surrounding it. As others have said, I believe that if this story was a little longer ...

    Jul 4, 2013
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Ari

    I loved it!! It was so mysterious yet beautifully tragic. I think that you need to have more confidence in yourself as a writer because if you don't, you're not ...

    Jun 6, 2013


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch