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AGE: 22
LOC: South Africa
GEN: Male
LAST LOGIN: September 06

I am a traveller of both time and space. Day to day I work as a freelance copywriter, and am taking courses in proofreading, copyediting, journalism, and TEFL (Teaching English to Foreign Learners). I’m hoping to move to Tokyo, where slanty-eyed otakus will call me sensei, then Cambridge, to pursue my dreams of professional snooker glory.

I read just about anything, but have an annoying tendency to write in that most maligned of genres, my first love, SF.  Review wise, I strive to be thorough, thoughtful and constructive. Hopeless romantic that I am, I expect the same from others. “Awesome!” has roughly the value of “hogshite!” when unaccompanied by reasons. I’ll tattle on you, so don’t do it.    

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Poetry / MY LOVE SONG
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Romance / Eternal Passion
Too idealistic, even for a Mills&Boone. Please understand, I'm not anti-spiritual. I believe in synchronicity, and if you believe in soul-mates, no problem with that. But the way these two get together, well, there just has to be a better way to represent the idea of true, fated, eternal love than describing two people meeting in a park, going home, and having sex, all in the space of about six sentences. I mean, give me their kinky afternoon any day, but that's a description of delightful, b...
Quotes / Normalcy
Mm - so you're saying that one man's norm is another man's weird, no? A truism, but I'm not sure I agree with the way it's expressed. You don't have to 'realize' your creation's relative abnormality to bring it into existence. It just will be the case, no matter what it is you create.
Novel Treatments / Sundown in the Sinkhole (I)
You have a heck of a way with words, but I'm gonna have to go ahead and agree about the pacing. It's not that the action's slow - it's that there's no action at all. Caitlin is just moving from one passive activity to another. You linger over ma getting up for far too long, and I think the description of her hideosity is a bit too extreme - coupled with the indestructible stew-spike, it renders this part of the story sort of comic-grotesque. Then she's counting flies.. spiders.. then she's si...
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