Happiness
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Date: 2008-02-10 19:40:01
Featured writing #: 23
Mod: Kiddalee
The Nightmare
By: [
aVorbiss]
Genre: Macabre Poetry
Mod's Comment:
One advantage that the horror genre has over us is our own lack of self-control - and lack of confidence in it. What potential have I to do something horrible? And could I?
This poem commences with the speaker's own frightened confusion; the reader has plenty of questions to ask of it. The mood then turns to that of a mystery novel to build up to a chilling answer.
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642.Poetry.The Nightmare; rate it, too!
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Date: 2008-01-10 10:17:39
Featured writing #: 22
Mod: Kiddalee
Flames of Change
By: [
Tyr Zalo Hawk]
Genre: Biographical prose
Mod's Comment: The extent of childhood amnesia varies from person to person. I remember being as young as three. A friend of mine barely remembers being six. However, some things are so unforgettable, they can be seared into your memory even at a very young age. In this memoir, the narrator relieves the trauma of a house fire, but then ends with a burning question...
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712.Stories.ShortStories.FlamesOfChange
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Date: 2007-12-12 00:50:14
Featured writing #: 21
Mod: Kiddalee
Another Love
The lavender swayed in the breeze beside Bruce’s face. Cordelia’s strawberry blonde hair tickled her neck as he twirled it in his fingers.
“Ok Cordelia, riddle me this. I am wet like a squash but sweet like a pie and no one can take me but only can give me, what am I?” he asked.
Cordelia thought.
“A dog?” she questioned.
Bruce leaned closer to her.
“No, a kiss.”
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415.Short Stories.Another Love.
Mod's Comment: And now for the technical stuff. [
Annie] has written such a professional quality fantasy scene that I can both picture and feel it. Why do you think I put the quotation before my comment, this time? Because that is one attention-grab
bing beginning. Warm, sweet-smelling, and pretty, this piece makes the reader love love... even in spite of the risks involved.
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Date: 2007-11-13 01:14:53
Featured writing #: 20
Mod: Kiddalee
