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  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, Mystery / Suspense Re: Prologue to 'Unknown Title'

    Hey, Sokka! I had to. Overall, this came off as a strong dramatic action scene due to the focus, budding sense of character, and pacing, but suffers where the prose ...

    Aug 28, 2016
  • Poetry » Satire, Culture Re: Men Activism > Feminism

    BOY OH BOY DID YOU FIND A PET PEEVE. On the internet in general it's amazingly easy to find dumb people, and looking into topics like this makes it all ...

    Aug 18, 2016
  • Short Story » Romantic, Dramatic Re: Silence Is Good

    Hello! Is English not your first language? I could not tell from your profile. The first thing that jumps out is the punctuation here. I suspect this is because the ...

    Aug 18, 2016
  • Poetry » General, General Re: spaghetti straps

    I need to preface this review with an apology. There is a conversation to be had around this poem around femininity and self-image, one which I will try to address, ...

    Aug 16, 2016
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Narrative Re: Blackish Brown or 'Chocolate'

    Hello! To begin with, I am glad to have had the context that this is about a dead cat. Knowing this does not lessen the impact of the poem, but ...

    Aug 16, 2016
  • Poetry » Science, General Re: there's no crying in chemistry

    Hello! In my opinion, this poem weaves together the chemistry motif with emotion to good effect. I really appreciate how almost every line here is making use of both themes ...

    Aug 15, 2016
  • Poetry » Romantic, Other Re: Cabbage Pest

    Hello! I had to review this as, in fact, I love cabbage moths. Not butterflies, the moths, which made the lines about moths being discarded like pests humorous. It is ...

    Aug 15, 2016
  • Poetry » Realistic, Dramatic Re: Call of the Wild

    This work has a clear environmentalist message. The first two verses are composed of poetic language and the stereotypical image of the wolf. The imagery there is clear in what ...

    Aug 13, 2016
  • Other » Humor, Other Re: Top 100 Things We Say To Bae (written by seventh graders)

    Warning to readers: do not read while drinking. I choked at the 'Shawn Mendes' one. The middle school flashbacks came fast and hard, in all its former glory. Ah, to ...

    Aug 12, 2016
  • Short Story » Dramatic, General Re: The Woman of the Sea

    Heya! Phew. Powerful topic. Then again, it's hard to do suicide and make it light. The themes you were aiming through did shine through. I didn't pick up on sexuality, ...

    Aug 11, 2016
  • Poetry » General, Realistic Re: ​The Silent Grasp

    Hello! My first impression from reading that this must be a partner piece to a story that the author had written. Based on your other work, this appears to be ...

    Aug 11, 2016
  • Poetry » Realistic, Dramatic Re: Brink of the Apocalypse

    Hey! I truly do like the underlying idea here. 'Monochrome' is a fun word to begin with, and using it as a running metaphor I think is a powerful visual ...

    Aug 11, 2016
  • Poetry » Other, Realistic Re: What Even Bro

    Hello! The first things I pick up from this are the narrator's (this reads like a personal piece, written out of frustration, so the narrator I must assume is you) ...

    Aug 11, 2016
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Literature Re: Shakespearian

    Hello hello! As a Shakespeare fan, the first thing I notice and enjoy is the running Romeo and Juliet allegory. I don't read any of it as literal (it's Juliet's ...

    Aug 9, 2016
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Something like Haiku- 1

    Based on the debate below, I should like to begin with a small lesson on the haiku. The poem structure of the haiku is complicated by the fact that Japanese ...

    Aug 8, 2016


The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H. L. Mencken