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  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Discontinuance - A Fugue in Two Parts

    Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! However, I hate to break it to you, but "parts" means a different thing in music than it does usually. In ...

    Sep 26, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Discontinuance - A Fugue in Two Parts

    [Removed for editing]

    Sep 24, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Sound Of Someone Crying

    The truth of the matter is I’m evil. Archie was always good. This didn't mean anything in the course of the story. If anything, Archie's the evil one, it seems. ...

    Sep 22, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Lightheaded Love

    Only when I thought that the fainting would come. "Only when I thought I would faint" sounds better. "The fainting" makes it sound like repeated faintings. Like *faint* *get up* ...

    Sep 22, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Left and Right

    First thing that comes to mind: Use names less. "Hi," Cru said. "Hi," Jess said. "How are you?" Cru said. Jess shrugged. Cru nodded. Jess nodded in response. It begins ...

    Sep 22, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Battling the Bottle

    Don't get me wrong; when I said it was "rough" I meant it as a good thing. A guy sitting alone at a bar knocking back drinks and hating himself ...

    Sep 22, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: [September Contest] Chicago's Poem Player

    An essential piece of a story is conflict. There is no conflict here. The main character doesn't want to achieve any goal throughout the piece, nothing is getting in his ...

    Sep 21, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Battling the Bottle

    Pretty good. You've got a hold of your character and a logical progression of thought. Just a thought, though. A little nitpick for believability and consistency. I imagine he's supposed ...

    Sep 21, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: [September Contest] Character Study (revised)

    This was well handled, with a confident hand. You have a firm picture of who Leonard is and you present his personality well enough. The film asides, though? I'll get ...

    Sep 20, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: [September Contest] The Beautiful Mortician.

    Very interesting take on the word "mortician." I dig it. The tone of the piece is noteworthy. Very world weary, ponderous, yet almost proud. I cannot be beautiful if no ...

    Sep 20, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Maharaja

    This was indeed very good! It reads very much like a legend or a bedtime story, in the royal atmosphere, the quick cursory description of events (how quickly he grows, ...

    Sep 17, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Murder

    There exists the tricky issue of going back and editing and adding more content. It's easy to repeat ideas or use too many words. Comments in red. ...The oncoming car ...

    Sep 15, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: What Lasts and What Doesn't

    Is this a story? It's missing important parts of a story such as plot and conflict. Rather, it's something like a poem written in paragraphs. I guess I shall review ...

    Sep 14, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: [September Contest] de profundis

    What is it with the story generator and doctors (or some otherwise highfalutin technical occupation)? Anyway. Spectacular. First paragraph: beautiful. It sets the mood instantly. The tone is so forlor

    Sep 14, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Murder

    Of course, of course. I'll post some thoughts here. If you'd like to take it further, I suggest we take it to private messages so we don't keep bumping this ...

    Sep 14, 2010


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