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  • Short Story » General, General 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
  • Short Story » General, General 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
  • Short Story » General, General 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
  • Short Story » General, General 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
  • Short Story » General, General 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
  • Short Story » General, General 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
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Murder

    Well then. That was fast paced and dizzy with blood. Let's get down to it. Thunder ruptured the eerie silences "the eerie silence" maybe? Pluralizing "silence" is a very weird ...

    Sep 13, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: A Day in the Life: A One, Paralyzed Man

    Overall, this was pretty good. Mature and dignified. So let's get into the nitty gritty. Get a better title. A title that resonates with what your piece is about. There's ...

    Sep 8, 2010
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: A September Siken Thread

    Evi is braver than I am. Originally, I had tried to be the first or second comment on here and say one thing of substance (which has flown out of ...

    Sep 8, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Street Walker

    I reread the first couple lines a few times, then I saw Krzyh's suggestion to switch them, and thought, "Genius!" It's just that 1) the first line is so specific ...

    Sep 2, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: You won

    I'm glad someone took a different spin on the letter from the dead. Letter from the murdered to the killer. Cool. (Personally, I entertained aspirations in my head of letter ...

    Sep 2, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Broken Family

    You have a decent opening with "I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt" (though some might say it's the kind of opening that's been used many times before). However! ...

    Sep 1, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Familial

    Is it just the barren drought of excitement in the general fiction section for the past week or two? This work is exciting to me. She is very peaceful. The ...

    Sep 1, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: I Don't Need to Say I Love You

    Is it too late? Is it due by the end of today or the beginning? I don't even know what time it is in YWS time. We need a little ...

    Sep 1, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Untitled

    You've got a good voice, but it can sometimes get crowded pretty fast and it hurries along even faster before we can pick up the pieces. I'll go through step ...

    Aug 31, 2010


The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest