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EricBarkman

  • Poetry » General, Realistic Re: Act Like An Adult, Be Treated Like An Adult

    Wow, this somewhat reminds me of myself at that age. I think it does a very good job of capturing that teenage feeling of wanting to be grown up, but ...

    Jan 11, 2015
  • Poetry » Humor, General Re: My First Day Back from Winter Break

    This is an interesting look at how a day varies throughout, and why people often give a nondescript answer when asked how their day was, because it varies throughout, and ...

    Jan 9, 2015
  • Poetry » Narrative, Humor Re: What the Fortune Cookie Told Me

    I actually really like this. It doesn't go into detail on why the two of them are bad for each other, but it's written in a way that it doesn't ...

    Dec 30, 2014
  • Short Story » Fantasy, Horror Re: Full Moon

    It's an interesting way to tell the story, with the countdown. You do need to work on your writing a bit though. You mentioned it's your first time writing, so ...

    Dec 21, 2014
  • Poetry » Humor, Other Re: The Man Who Lives in a Can

    Well, this isn't actually a limerick, as those are five lines long with a rhyming pattern of AABBA, while this is six lines long with a rhyming pattern of AABCCB. ...

    Dec 16, 2014
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Christmas Spirit

    You might want to do a few rounds of editing, as there are quite a few grammar mistakes throughout. You might also want to work on the beginning a bit. ...

    Dec 13, 2014
  • Short Story » General, Other Re: Defect

    The story is interesting. I'm assuming the ending is supposed to by implying that the Memory Box is working on it's own, just like stuff did around her as a ...

    Dec 12, 2014
  • Short Story » Narrative, Other Re: The End

    I'm assuming this is the start of something? It's interesting, but it feels more like a beginning than a stand-alone story. It definitely makes me curious about this world, about ...

    Dec 11, 2014
  • Short Story » Fanfiction, Humor Re: A Trip to an Amusement Park (X-Men One-Shot)

    So, I read through it, and it is a fairly simple story, more dealing with character interactions than actual plot, which is fine, but it does bring up an issue. ...

    Dec 11, 2014
  • Short Story » Narrative, Romantic Re: Loneliness

    I like the story, and how it doesn't end the traditional way with the characters getting together, but I think you should have put more detail into why. The narrator ...

    Dec 8, 2014
  • Short Story » Realistic, Narrative Re: The Changed

    So, I started reading this, and I wasn't really liking the opening as I wasn't sure where it was going, or why it was going there. And then it arrived, ...

    Dec 7, 2014
  • Poetry » Romantic, General Re: One Glance

    Very nice work. I like the rhyming scheme, and the rhythm of the poem. The line "I risk a glance, a small, small glance." felt a little off to my ...

    Dec 6, 2014
  • Short Story » Horror, Mystery / Suspense Re: Within the Fog

    This could be a decent story, except that the ending is only a surprise because it blatantly contradicts the narration in the first part. Namely the parts where Sam narrates ...

    Dec 5, 2014


There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.
— Maya Angelou