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Aura (11)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aura (10)
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great first part really
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2014
great first part really enjoyed the writing lovely descriptions and diction - Gnarling waves, heavy ceiling of grey smear, plump little black statues - good sparky dialogue too
Read full commentPosted in Look There, On The Rocks
I liked this it worked well
Posted on Sun, 07 Dec 2014
I liked this it worked well some very pretty moments and descriptions peppered across the passage of time. the beginning in particular had flashes of a chekhov short, the family, the light from the window. lovely moments eg. she hears the creak...
Read full commentPosted in “Ladies and Gentlemen. Children of All Ages.”
How excellent this is...i
Posted on Sat, 04 Oct 2014
How excellent this is...i read your recent on the cliff path and then this poem and I like how transportive they are and how you can transfer the reader into these environments with subtle arrangements of words. In short pieces every word seems...
Read full commentPosted in Ysgyryd Fawr/Skirrid …
Ah that was fantastic, i
Posted on Wed, 03 Dec 2014
Ah that was fantastic, i haven't read the others in this series but I will look forward to going through them. I liked the letter form, the only other time I think I have read such form is in Dracula but it was very transportive and evocative and...
Read full commentPosted in We Who Survived - 6 Susan Kimball and Elizabeth Sager
I really liked this. I liked
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2014
I really liked this. I liked the throwaway parts like 'to the cliff bit' and I though the last sentence was marvellous -one thing that catches on the corner of conversation-, repetition of feeds all back in loops. Also the dorsal fin scouring the...
Read full commentPosted in Bring the sea in
This was cool I enjoyed it!
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2014
This was cool I enjoyed it! Trippy and visual. really nice moments like counting the little white popcorns in the ceiling. It flipped tense unexpectedly at times - it kinda works in some places but when it changes within sequences it threw me a...
Read full commentPosted in nightmares and memories
Eye drop out and hang by its
Posted on Sat, 29 Nov 2014
Eye drop out and hang by its strings...my god. This was wonderfully effective writing with excellent original descriptions. Moments like 'snarls like a cartoon monster' and the breathless rolling 'ands' in 'and then it's like im underwater and my...
Read full commentPosted in Asleep
I was glad I came across this
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2013
I was glad I came across this as it is probably a good lesson in terms of stripping things back and keeping it simple and conveying everything you need to convey just absolutely right and then some...words and arrangements of words, each word is...
Read full commentPosted in And I am telling you now
Ah this was good, a different
Posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2014
Ah this was good, a different type of genre? It works well, the dribbling of info style reminded me a little of Under The Skin (michel Faber) beginning and it spurs you on, intrigued (but, Under the ice!) I like the isolated strange event or...
Read full commentPosted in Under The Ice (1)
I loved this, I thought it
Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2014
I loved this, I thought it was marvellous, so graceful. Esp. 'Demented m's...still serve to remind me-'
Read full commentPosted in PS No PS
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