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Re: Brothers
he’s right to say that the army would not take one of us. But to tell you that he was the one who was sent away to war is a ...
Dec 2, 2010 -
Re: Adam's Suicide Note
I appreciate that you wanted to do something you thought was different. And though I've seen a fair share of suicide notes/letters from the dead/letters to the dead/etc etc on ...
Dec 1, 2010 -
Re: The Purple Shirted Annoyance
Interesting. Well developed for what it is, but lacking in overall effect because both its beginning and end are totally unknown. It seems like everything you post in the short ...
Nov 30, 2010 -
Re: The Man Underneath
Rather interesting resolution. However, your narration is struggling. The way you open and convey your thoughts, this was how I understood the story: 1) Woman watches husband in bed. "This ...
Nov 29, 2010 -
Re: Nikita Bearder
I regret to inform you...but this has no place here. This writing, at best, would only find its place on a facebook page or on a livejournal. This is a ...
Nov 29, 2010 -
Re: My Encounter With Satan
Not my cup of tea, really. It reads in a pretty elementary way, which sucks any humor that might have been there. I realize that the taste in humorous writing ...
Nov 18, 2010 -
Re: Reunion
Your story is far too detached for us to feel what Ryan's feeling. The old brick building showed its age, and yet as he stepped through the main doors it ...
Nov 16, 2010 -
Re: Flames and Ice
[Enter the devil's to speak] All right. Let's get down to this. First off, starting off your story describing the weather. While it's a means to set the story, it ...
Nov 12, 2010 -
Re: Alive
This story is far too short to garner much interest. It's a generic narrator with generic suicidal tendencies with a generic insensitive mother and a generic solution to the problem. ...
Nov 12, 2010 -
Re: Gold to Nothingness
Your words are definitely mature and thoughtful, I'll give you that. You take your time and want to describe it exactly without overdoing it. That's good. But writing about someone ...
Nov 11, 2010 -
Re: Story of a Teenage Theif
I'm not here to do a full review, as I haven't really had the time to do that in weeks (BadNarrator appears to have done a splendid job in that ...
Oct 8, 2010 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
