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BarrettBenedict

  • Writing Tips Re: want to publish a story

    Hey guys, thanks for all your help, especially that website sureal, but alas, my original question was less about publishing in general, and more about publishing a specific story. I'd ...

    Nov 23, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Caricature of a Deity

    Well, the beginning can be changed. It's a shame you didn't read through more of the story, and give me a fuller critique, because even if I improved upon the ...

    Nov 23, 2006
  • Writing Tips Re: want to publish a story

    I've got this story I want to get published, yet there are a few questions I have about the whole process. For one I want to know if this particular ...

    Nov 16, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Song for You: a haiku

    It is meant to be "God, you're beautiful".

    Nov 11, 2006
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Let Them Eat Cake

    We picked him up at an old run down watering hole, passed out on a bench in the back of the joint. Dreaming of discarded pictures of loved ones and ...

    Oct 20, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Rubber Boot Blues

    Wow, thanks Fand. I agree with just about every change you've suggested here, except for the removal of the word magically towards the end. The reason I can't remove that ...

    Oct 15, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Rubber Boot Blues

    I knew an amazing storyteller once; he used to talk in great waves, distorting space and time, and weaving majestic tales through the immeasurable tapestry of the infinite. Occasionally, during ...

    Oct 13, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: I never met a haberdasher I didn't not meet,

    None of it makes sense anymore. When cons start outweighing pros, and hope becomes a screaming infant tied to a stick and beaten repeatedly against the concrete sidewalk, and every ...

    Oct 7, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Eunuch

    Wow, this is simply amazing.

    Sep 30, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Ambigious Vivacious Folds of the Canopy

    I think TimJim gave you just about everything you need. You have a good sense for words, you just need to work on how you utilize them. Overall this was ...

    Sep 30, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Zilch

    If you count to ten Then count to three You’re thirteen steps ahead of me But if you count infinity I’m closer than you’ll ever be

    Sep 17, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Anniversary

    Thank you backgroundbob. Your comments are definitely flattering seeing as how you yourself are an exceptional writer and one who's opinions I can trust.

    Sep 15, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Anniversary

    As the man studied the crimson Rorschach test left on his bathroom wall, he decided that it reminded him of a butterfly in a frog's mouth, or maybe of cat ...

    Sep 13, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: not even a farewell

    Hey there, thanks for all your comments. I would like to say to writingluver that the use of comfy chair in this poem was quite intentional. It's there to signify ...

    Aug 29, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: not even a farewell

    and so I sit here in my comfy chair the smell of censored reality on my breath who says I can't laugh away the pain? just that one little piece ...

    Aug 20, 2006


You never really know how much of you takes residence in other people... We all exchange bits and pieces of ourselves with each other until we're big sparkly collages of everyone and everything we've ever loved
— GengarTheGhost