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  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Sparrow

    Rather interesting. It has a fairy tale ring to its tone. The mother shall be described as... The father of the house was a bespectacled A shining dove – Sparrow! ...

    Feb 2, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Whispering

    Abortion gets over dramatized, really. There's only pain behind it if 1) you're morally against it, but have to or 2) if you want the child, but there's 100% chance ...

    Feb 2, 2011
  • Lounge, The Re: The January Review Day Review

    That in turn led to 4 crashes total. Needless to say, I spent much of the time just ensuring that YWS continued to run! I like to imagine the website ...

    Feb 2, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Apple a Day

    I don't usually like to bump stories to reply to other comments and such, but I thought it was important enough to say. I understand there is humor, which is ...

    Jan 26, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Apple a Day

    Um... Cute little folktale kind of thing. Until the murdering happens. Then it just kind of spirals into a weird darkness. Your presentation is just fine. And the only thing ...

    Jan 25, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Ambrosia Walk

    Take this and make it into a story. As it stands now, it's a very long, kinda bland monologue. The first paragraph is okay as it is because it serves ...

    Jan 25, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: A Statue On The Boardwalk

    I can appreciate what you wanted to accomplish, but there some stumbling blocks. 1) It's very purple-prose-ish. "Purple prose" is a term "used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary ...

    Jan 21, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Lucky (for canislupis' contest)

    You have a very good grasp on the character. I like that. What I don't like so much is that it's not really a story with a discernible struggle. Really, ...

    Jan 17, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: A Samurai's Wound

    Bro, don't listen to her (that sounded too familiar...that was weird). Lena, a story will be as long as a story needs to be; what matters is its draw. It's ...

    Jan 13, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Them

    You might want to post more. There is no story here, so there's nothing to critique. If anything, all I can say is that this intro goes on far too ...

    Jan 12, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Natalie 2

    Today Natalie should have come to work, but didn’t show up, and doesn’t pick up her phone. That last phrase needs rewording. "She should've come to work...and doesn't pick up ...

    Jan 7, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: One of Them

    I'll just jump right in. (clouds block the sun from the earth; of course they cast shadows!) As mentioned in a previous post or two, the narrator is very solemn. ...

    Jan 6, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Zenith Chapter 2

    My thoughts continued to stray away from their intended track and I found myself on a thought that always left me dumbfounded when I thought about it. This sentence is ...

    Dec 10, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Penrose Stairs

    First off, thanks for reading and the very thoughtful review. It makes me feel special. Second, you are an extremely astute reader. Good job! I'll respond line by line here, ...

    Dec 3, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Penrose Stairs

    Removed for editing. Thanks for reading!

    Dec 3, 2010


There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
— Christopher Darlington Morley