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Hi, Joshuapaul, that's the anglosax (I think) in you talking:) Your recommendations would move this from the minimalist Eastern European absurdist tradition and push it into the slightly more coherent

Hi Twit, Thank you for the feedback, yes, I understand the need to know what a thing really is, in order to have a stable opinion of it. I'll try ...

And may you live long and prosper as well, haha

Heh, right, not really a story, just an autumn dirge. The pigeons? They are such a symbolic symbolism that I couldn't possibly start to explain. Anyway, glad you produced an ...

I used to play the bagpipes when I was a Scotsman, to this day I sometimes try to blow into cow’s udders to make music. In fact, they arrested me ...

Alas, my pigeon friends, this could only mean that September is just around the corner.

Again in the style of Eastern European speculative fiction, again excellent. The pulp geek in me would have preferred the Prof. to meet his other less intense self and realize ...

The cooked abominations moved as if by magnetism towards Abodos, coalescing into a fleshy mass around him. The mass boiled and squirmed, some awful transmogrification taking place inside. It quickly ...

That was a very thoughtful and to the point feedback, Master Yoda! You rule! That bit about not dark and not fantasy sounds like Voltaire’s opinion of the Holy Roman ...

Will is definitely not the hero of the story as you told it. He is simply the princess of your story who has been locked in the tower awaiting her ...

Hi there, Dream. Now I personally when reviewing try to not judge the plot, the characters and the narrative voice, because the reaction to these is highly subjective. There are ...

...why not try plan a plot specifically around some of the ideas you would like to convey? But not have the ideas summarized by the narrator, nor voiced by characters, ...

Well, that was fun. Who's been breathing the ether again now? :) Here are my thoughts and suggested tweaks: I don’t see a need for quotation marks neither for “disturbed ...

Hey Dream, glad you liked the nits. As to research; first you don't need it for this story, just one vague sentence about an electrical lamp or gas lamp, or ...

This was a very good story, with strong characters and a quality story-arc from start to finish. Nice open-ended finish. Gordon the fisherman needs to be described, to be given ...