Darkest World [Prologue]

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I hear a door open but I can’t see it. The puppet strings of this body are cut and I can’t feel these hands.
A towel slips itself around my wrist. I blot the blood and toss the stained towel into the laundry.
As I walk downstairs (hurrying because Mom is coming inside), I plaster a picture-perfect smile onto my face.
“Hi, Sweetie.” She greets me and stares at her hands. The pager that’s enclosed in her fingers is beeping crazily.
“Hi.” I mumble. Have a normal conversation with your mother.
“How was school?” She holds the pager in the air and uses her free hand to cut some vegetables.
“Fine.” I answer.
“Are you hungry yet? I’m making some soup.” She sets the pager on the tabletop and continues to slice the vegetables.
“Okay.” I say. I inhale deeply and head for my room.
A mother who ignores her own flesh-and-blood will not have a very orderly daughter.
I hope she realizes that.

Why is this so short? This could very easily be combined with the next segment. It's not even really a prologue, since that is, by definition, a section that does not happen on the same time line as the story.

Also, if you want reviews, you may want to start reviewing other people. That usually works.

On to the actual segment:

I'll start with what I didn't like:
You don't need parenthetical sentences in fiction. It just looks weird. Same with that cross-out--it's uneccessary.

Also, read this out loud. It's short--shouldn't take that long. Does it flow well? In the places where it doesn't, revise.

Get rid of the last two sentences. They belong later in the story, I think, after we've seen this in action.

What I liked:

The beginning was very poetic and flowed well, and your overall premise gripped me.

With some work, this has tons of promise!

If you need a review, PM me.

See you around!

Lupis

This is way too short. Too short to give an overall impression.

The only thing I can comment on is the puppet-string thing. The puppet string controls the puppet, so wouldn't she feel like a puppet being controlled instead of a puppet set free?

RedRaven wrote:[0.00]

I hear a door open but I can’t see it. The puppet strings of this body are cut and I can’t feel these hands.
A towel slips itself around my wrist. I blot the blood and toss the stained towel into the laundry.
As I walk downstairs (hurrying because Mom is coming inside) You also don't need the brackets here, I plaster a picture-perfect smile onto my face.
“Hi, Sweetie.” She greets me and stares at her hands. The pager that’s enclosed in her fingers is beeping crazily.
“Hi.” I mumble. Have a normal conversation with your mother. You don't need to have this striked out. Maybe Italic it to show thoughts
“How was school?” She holds the pager in the air and uses her free hand to cut some vegetables.
“Fine.” I answer.
“Are you hungry yet? I’m making some soup.” She sets the pager on the tabletop and continues to slice the vegetables.
“Okay.” I say. I inhale deeply and head for my room.
A mother who ignores her own flesh-and-blood will not have a very orderly daughter.
I hope she realizes that.

A couple of things.
Your punctutation after dialogue is totally wrong. http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/topic44898.html
Please, check out that link, it is really helpful

Something else-I didn't feel anything reading that, and it was super short. If you want to go short, fine, but, but more feeling and emotion into it.

This is way too short to be a prologue. It seems like it could be part of your first chapter.
Prologues are sometimes the main character looking back onto what happens during your story.


~Kit

Hey,

I've noticed that most of your storys revolve around a couple of basic themes: eating disorders and cutting. I think that either you should stick with one story because they (and don't take this the wrong way) are all basically the same. I read this really great book called "Bleed" where it was a bunch of short stories that were based in one town. I guess you can do the same thing. You have so many "novels" which are the same things under different names. Fix this problem.

~Jas