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  • Romantic Short Stories Re: Dating Sucks

    Nice pun in the title! There are a few grammos and typos. Jace will never go to high school since he already knows more than most scholars, I mean wouldn%u2019t ...

    Nov 28, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: If I Was Her?

    I liked the first, almost-structured stanza, then a complete collapse of all control and a torrent of rage, disappointment and incomprehension running through the poem. The stanzas were good, but ...

    Nov 28, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Limerick 2

    There was an American dude, Who'd eat any foreigners' food. He was sent to Shanghai, Tried a strange-looking pie, Now he pecks like a right little prude.

    Nov 28, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Limerick 1

    There was a young prince, George the Great, Who swore like a bloody first mate. His mother's last hope was to call in the Pope - He gave George an ...

    Nov 28, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Eyes on the Prize

    This is a highly motivating poem! The rhyme that you used was great. I liked the fourth stanza, it followed a "bang bang bang crash" kind of pattern, which is ...

    Nov 27, 2011
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Dylan

    Poor Dylan. This story is interesting, but full of strange mysteries. Who was Dylan? What was to happen to the narrator? Who was the narrator? I am a bit confused. ...

    Nov 27, 2011
  • Art & Photography Re: Baby Bottle

    How do you do that? The bottle must have taken hours of patience and lots of fine detail! I can't believe it! That is great! It has detail, just the ...

    Nov 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Fighting Temptation

    I liked the shape of the poem -- this seems silly, but it was in blocks... like chocolate... You described that helpless sensation of the Chocolate Crave so well, I've ...

    Nov 27, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Autumn

    I really liked the way that your engaged every sense in this poem. This is something that many poets somehow neglect -- they focus on touch, sound or sight. I ...

    Nov 27, 2011
  • Science-Fiction Short Stories Re: Old story

    This is a really good piece -- I can't complain in any way: No typos, no spelling mistakes... It is all so sad. I loved the mood, the way you ...

    Nov 26, 2011
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Red Cloak Part 9

    Yay! I really enjoyed the story and the characters were built perfectly. The only part that bothered me a bit in this chapter, was the start. It felt as though ...

    Nov 26, 2011
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Decoder - Chapter 5

    I landed in the middle of a colossal city with a flash of neon light, which blended in perfectly with the background of illuminated billboards. It was dark. Wind whipped ...

    Nov 26, 2011
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: The Watchers.. Prologue attempt

    This prologue is intriguing and ominous, with fantastic character mixed in! I already like Gerald. There were isolated typos which I'm just going to go over, but your writing style ...

    Nov 25, 2011
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: She thought about...

    LadyPurple seems to have got all the spelling mistakes, but I like the story itself. The hopelessness of the girl's life is mirrored by your writing style. I really liked ...

    Nov 25, 2011
  • Other Re: Under Fog

    This is so sad, mysterious, beautiful and misty. I sat sighing afterwards, pulling my mind out of this world that you have created. This was simply magical to read. I ...

    Nov 25, 2011


I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
— Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights