Re: Shelter by poetandknowit	21-Aug-02/12:15 AM
ah, the moment of clarity, arriving too late. as you said, at least it's getting wrapped up. as much as i like a nice drinkie with friends, things have been known to out themselves in the most uncomfortable of ways on those occasions. sigh. so, where're you from, originally?
Re: The Precious Thing by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	21-Aug-02/12:11 AM
you sly beggar. slipping it in, once again, and freshness counts! jubilant use of 'shape', and motion.
Re: Bizarre Practices by longships	21-Aug-02/12:06 AM
if you enjoy thinking of them as bizarre, i guess they are. so many condemn for thoughts they themselves frequently fight back. perhaps this is what incites the mania? everything 'safe' and 'normal' sounds like hell to me.
Re: Shelter by poetandknowit	21-Aug-02/12:00 AM
no wonder you need a little help, just waiting for your fact-checkin' cuz. is there a gem in the story that you care to share? an anecdote, a phrasing that amuses?
Re: Secret, Admirer by <~>	20-Aug-02/11:59 PM
mojo, h: i used to live out in the sticks, and the night was alive with eyes when i came home after working my 2nd (or sometimes 3rd) job. you never knew what was out there--swamp on one side of the driveway, woods on the other. vultures waiting in the trees, an arm's reach from my car door in the morning. the paranoid dash from the car to the door was pure adrenaline. i was younger--10 years ago i scribbled these ideas out; yesterday, i gave them flesh. i was alone--that bit about him leaving the light on? he had stopped coming home, and the only ones waiting up were the cats. call me la vieja loco con gatos...
Re: North by lw_nd	20-Aug-02/11:49 PM
i'm along for the ride on this one, cold and dark as it may be. well done.
Re: Shelter by poetandknowit	20-Aug-02/11:42 PM
on a bender tonight, p&k? 'this little one's not worth the effort. come, let me get you something...'
Re: On the Eve of the '98 Leonids by lw_nd	20-Aug-02/11:27 PM
i see you have heeded this advice. the river bend was the most alluring; the whole of it seem like fish strung on a line, but you've got cod mixed with trout and mackerel, and flatfish and sea robins abed with small mouth. i see by your title that all relate to the eve, but i'm not sure how.
Re: Secret, Admirer by <~>	20-Aug-02/1:34 PM
i know. god that one was classic, wasn't it? but i had to pull it--part of the terms of the settlement, you know.
Re: I am Darkness by Dreamer	20-Aug-02/12:47 PM
i fear neither crow nor cock nor getting laid by the light of dawn's fatal rays.
Re: The Ultimate~Creep goes to Mecca! by Bachus	20-Aug-02/12:37 PM
afternoon, h. don't worry about stupor123; he's a big-badass-comment-deleting braveheart. apparently he knows all about everything, too. oh, and thanks for the good werds last nite. i signed off early...
Re: Secret, Admirer by <~>	20-Aug-02/12:29 PM
thanks razor. typo fixed.
Re: Creative Destruction by talking_goldfish	20-Aug-02/11:03 AM
you know, stubar, deleting a person's comment won't help you with this one. again, i say: this teaches me nothing. to fall in love with a person who is tied to another is a soul-rending experience. you piss all over the reader's digest condensed version of it. write about what you know, not what you think you know. your mirror is shallow indeed.
Re: Alone by NeeMan	20-Aug-02/8:11 AM
hmm, the last words of each stanza: dark, hard, need, alone...does this activity require a magazine, and a box of tissues as well?
Re: Our New Tongue by Christof	20-Aug-02/8:04 AM
even more absurd, in hindsight. but, oh, to revisit, even for a moment, the halcyon, when those oaths were one's lifeblood...
Re: will you? by Sapphire	20-Aug-02/7:57 AM
with all those rope images, you may as well just tie him up.
Re: Escape by Redfin	20-Aug-02/7:56 AM
sweet dreams, saccharin boy. my dreams tend to be a little more, shall we say, carnal...and that always paints a smile on my slumbering visage
Re: Shelter by poetandknowit	20-Aug-02/7:51 AM
the image is strong but the phrasing does nothing for me.
Re: Belongings by Christof	20-Aug-02/7:49 AM
'wrung the vowels until they rained', indeed. this is swell.
Re: Insomnia by DevilTmptrss	20-Aug-02/7:47 AM
like it. insomnia, a caged beast.