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Ciarente

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New story: This Is How It Is
« on: 22 Apr 2010, 07:33 »
I've just published a new story on my fiction blog: This Is How It Is.
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Eva

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Re: New story: This Is How It Is
« Reply #1 on: 02 May 2010, 11:27 »
I found this story incredibly powerful. To the point where when I finished it, I found myself curled up foetal in my chair, squashing my cat to my chest with tears in my eyes.
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Mizhara

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Re: New story: This Is How It Is
« Reply #2 on: 02 May 2010, 11:42 »
I physically felt sick reading this. That is a compliment, not criticism. I am in awe. Wonderful writing, and you can literally feel the desperation, fear, pain, humiliation and despair. And I felt... wrath. Rage. A desire to literally destroy those responsible for it. That is good writing.
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Esna Pitoojee

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Re: New story: This Is How It Is
« Reply #3 on: 02 May 2010, 13:45 »
Mizhara and I were talking about this earlier in Red's, and I'll freely repost what I said to her.

I'm honestly glad I only read this story after the RP involving saving Valhiri occured. The reason is that this story so masterfully manipulates the reader, I don't think I could have kept my OOC knowledge of what happened to Valhiri seperate from my IC knowledge (or lack of such). It's that moving of a story.
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Mathra Hiede

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Re: New story: This Is How It Is
« Reply #4 on: 04 May 2010, 21:46 »
Read, enjoyed.

Maybe I am just a little bit more stone-cold about such things, it moved me but not quite to the same extent as has been mentioned before.

However, extremely good piece and well written.
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Shalee Lianne

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Re: New story: This Is How It Is
« Reply #5 on: 05 May 2010, 12:54 »
Chilling.  A very good read. 
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