Mark Say
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I have 55 stories published in
3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 68827 times
and 74 of my stories have been cherry picked.
96 of my 581 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 98 votes
My stories
Nighthawks
Ever wondered what's going on in that Edward Hopper painting?
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St John the Baptist
Caravaggio kept painting the saint as a naked boy. Then someone came to kill him.
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Vincent's Crows
Van Gogh's Crows in a Wheatfield wreaks havoc in a man's mind
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Red on Maroon
Abstract art in a struggle against grief
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Goya's Dog
What's the most disturbing? A series of human horrors or a doomed dog?
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Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2015
Painful, but so real. Captures the way that peer pressure contributes to emotional cruelty among children, and I like the way that you convey Clare's sense of shame without actually stating it. Well done Hayley.
Read full commentPosted in Growing Up
I like this ...
Posted on Sat, 10 Jan 2015
... despite the concluding tragedy. There's a constant emphasis on the mundane but with a suggestion that it can bring just as much joy to a person's life as enduring discomforts in pursuit of over-indulgence. It might be a conservative message,...
Read full commentPosted in Lucky For Me
Effectively vivid
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2014
I think this portrays a dramatic little scene in very vivid terms, and made me want to know more about the characters. It was a little frustrating in coming across as just a fragment of something larger, but id does convey the tension within the...
Read full commentPosted in The Distance Between Them
Excellent
Posted on Thu, 04 Sep 2014
Conveys so many old yearnings and frustrations in one brief incident. Well done Torscot.
Read full commentPosted in My little Indian in Summer (I.P.)
Well done SG
Posted on Thu, 20 Mar 2014
Very good. I really like the way you conveyed all the disappointments and little triumphs in a career with such economy. The short sentences work very well in the context and those scraps of detail do a great job of conveying the changes of...
Read full commentPosted in The End of the Pier
Well done John. I found this
Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2014
Well done John. I found this a very vivid in evoking the mood as much as describing the place, and really impressed by that hint of something sour dropped in at the end. If anything, I thought you could have made a touch more of that, but still...
Read full commentPosted in That Field
Nice story. I like the way it
Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2014
Nice story. I like the way it builds the sense of anticipation which is then quickly deflated. I bet most of us have gone through something similar at some time.
Read full commentPosted in Dormity Gardens
Aaaah! Apostrophes with a
Posted on Sat, 30 Nov 2013
Aaaah! Apostrophes with a plural S! You also want to watch out for the its' when it should be it's.
Read full commentPosted in Sehnsuct
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