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mikepyro

  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Let Me In

    There's solid detail and description here. Glad to see another fan of Let Me In as well, but this really does belong in fanfic. Also, since you obviously enjoyed let ...

    Jul 31, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Gone

    the snake metaphor doesn't work for me. It's just one too many metaphors and similes in the piece that it distances me from the piece. The strongest points are lines ...

    Jul 28, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: God Comes After

    The roadway flailed beneath me but I did my best --line reads a little akwardly, almost sounds like he's driving than walking see her outline, there, (i'd cut the there, ...

    Jul 28, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Sixteen

    I really enjoyed the way you describe the city, the world, the landscape. I had a few points that threw me off, firstly is davora a hooker as well? If ...

    Jul 27, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Fairer Side of the Sunset

    So I’m in North Bend Hospital cleaning out the bed pans of dilapidated grandmas and dropping hunks of near frozen apple sauce into half-comatose patients when—wait, I should probably tell ...

    Jul 27, 2011
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: I hate you...

    Welll, the emotion of the work does ring true at many points, and though it comes naturally for the piece you manage a good deal of that emotion through your ...

    Jul 26, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Summer Rain

    It was a hot day, but it didn’t feel like it. Cool breeze swept through the park, sending leaves of twilight gold to shower the earth. The laughter and cries ...

    Jul 26, 2011
  • Other Re: Odd Girl Out

    Well I agree that the piece is rather short and we're never given enough time to truly get to know the character but I think from what we are given ...

    Jul 26, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Of Songs and Roads

    not a prude when it comes to language (some of my pieces use a fair f word) but to me the cursing felt totally out of place with this work. ...

    Jul 25, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Family Affair

    Thank you but your story is not my story and you need to review my work based on its qualities and failings, not your works.

    Jul 25, 2011
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: The Swirl 2.0 (Revamped)

    For your age, this is a decent piecce. You spend far too much time focused on telling rather than showing "he did this, he looked like this". Simply telling us ...

    Jul 25, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Moment We Long For

    This is a pretty nice piece, personal, but not overly so, and emotional without being over the top or familiar. You made it your own, really. I do find that ...

    Jul 25, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Paradise

    Please, if you're reviewing this don't just say 'I found some grammar/typo errors (there are no typos) without stating what they are. I'm strict on grammar and I wanna fix ...

    Jul 25, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Thine Eyes

    A very old poem of mine from when I was 15, a tribute to the passage Song of Solomon, possibly the most breathtaking lines of prose within the Bible. In ...

    Jul 24, 2011
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: The Cut - Very Short Fiction

    While the piece takes a moment to pull the reader in there's a depth hidden beneath the lines that really kept me reading. The sudden burst of motion and life ...

    Jul 24, 2011


Memories, left untranslated, can be disowned; memories untranslatable can become someone else’s story.
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