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AGE: 27
LOC: United Kingdom
GEN: Male
LAST LOGIN: July 09

after living in tokyo for the past four years, i recently returned home.  i like vonnegut, bukowski, douglas coupland, ayn rand and some other stuff.  when i’m not writing, i like to play the guitar.

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Non-fiction / Isolation Room
Version 1
8 Reviews   1 Comment
In the isolation room I am no more than a speck on the wall. As they drain and clean and filter my blood through their machinery I sip on my Christmas whiskey and nibble on a quarter of a pork pie. "What is the point of living", I think to myself, "if all of your time is wasted on trying to stay alive?". I have been isolated from the other patients so as not to infect them with the dirty germs that I may have brought back as souvenirs from my travels. As most of the other patients seem to be...
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Version 2
17 Reviews   8 Comments
The Night We All Fucked Each Other Lesson 1: Never take a boner out of the house with you. For nothing good can come of it: Perhaps you'll get strange glares, or even requests for sexual liaisons, from the jaundiced-looking shop assistants who sell you your groceries at the local supermarket. Their solitary, vegetable-selling, lives slowly becoming too much for them, and their pale hands with the stench of cheap and eccentric masturbation fondling your peas and carrots at the checkout line li...
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Short Story / A bridge,
I think your poetic ideas seem to have a lot of weight behind them, for example the part about dinosaurs laying eggs, but your prose seems to lack passion and therefore you don't quite live up to your own expectations. The idea of the bridge as a metaphor will always be a difficult one to carry off, mainly because it's been done so many times before. I do like how your prose is so short and snappy, though. It's not at all long-winded and the succinct style is easy to digest. The 'SPooOON' par...
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Nice story. I particularly like the way that you make use of language to describe things, 'Perishing winds' had a nice ring to it, as did a lot of other moments. The story itself is very original and it's good that you retained a level of Englishness. The ending is nice as well, maintaining a cool degree of irony. Thanks for a good read.
This is much better than the other chapter that I read of this. I like how you use relevant quotes and facts, which back up your argument quite admirably. I think if you wrote the whole book in a style similar to this it would be much more successful. It's more cohesive and makes a lot of sense in places.
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