lenchenelf
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I have 228 stories published in
8 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 486102 times
and 167 of my stories have been cherry picked.
174 of my 1,543 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 186 votes

Striking
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
Damned enjoyable. The narrator as alienated observer, is crafted well. A sense of this pervades. Though at an uneasy peace with a culture and heat to which he does not belong, he yet observes in practice, and masters local pleasantries. Again...
Read full commentPosted in Tail-end
Embracing ..
Posted on Thu, 10 Nov 2016
... an idealised memory of self and nation...that never was.....
Good read.
Lena x
Posted in Dream On
Duality...
Posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2016
...of existence. How to function? Heart wrenching. Poetry so often addresses ephemeral, but pleasing states of being; this is crafted, but raw in a pain that leaves the reader breathless, and with you. Keep strong.
hug to you and your...
Read full commentPosted in The Silent Witness
Lovely
Posted on Thu, 14 Apr 2016
as the tide's wave on sand; melancholy, joy, breathe in, breathe out.
best regards
Lena xx
Posted in Girl with Yellow Wings (Poetry Monthly)
Succint
Posted on Sat, 23 Jan 2016
..and successfully conveys amongst other many other inherent themes, simplicity and complexity of learned motor skills/comfort/autopilot as part of addiction/comfort process (mimes filling and switching on electric kettle) Like,like, like....
Read full commentPosted in Never forget smoking
This..
Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2014
...'
within the tangled scrim,
a branch snags, and eyes – orbs,
a lethal mix of ambergris
and antonyms
reflect – become
the moon.'
By crikey lovely lass, tha' can conjure dark beauty!...
Read full commentPosted in Night Moves
Lovely surreal soundscape...
Posted on Tue, 02 Sep 2014
... I wondered if you might look at your enjambment and punctuation; consider pace you'd like the reader to follow with eye and heart. Quick review of spelling. All these edits I make too, so not poking at you. :)
best wishes
lena...
Read full commentPosted in a light
Expressed...
Posted on Sat, 26 Jul 2014
...as milk from a breast with mastitis. Some pains cannot be prepared for, You handled this piece with sensitivity and knowing. A carefully worded build of peer networks and experience relied on, to a point where they cannot go, because all else...
Read full commentPosted in It All Came Out in the Wash
Surprised...
Posted on Tue, 10 Jun 2014
...that this wasn't an editor's choice. You've handled an abhorrent practice with a dry, factual narrative, a voice relating incident as so 'ordinary' as counterpoint to this horror, raising the mostrousity beyond any use of hyperbole.
...
Read full commentPosted in Crime and Punishment
Good write, I shall lay a
Posted on Mon, 02 Jan 2012
Good write, I shall lay a trail of nutmeg, as for Birds of Paradise :-)xRead full commentPosted in I Stand Outside
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