Very good prompt! To be able to put a clown in there must have been hard. I want to know much more about these two. What are they? Who are the trackers? What do they want? Still, if you don't expand on this, it's a good stand alone too.
I have to agree it was fun to do this team review.
I forgot to say that after having written a little myself now (very little...), I have a much deeper appreciation for this format of 1000 words. I can hardly start my stories before I'm well over that. To be able to write a story with such short installments and still have each be meaningful and a complete chapter is very impressive.
I so like the banter not only between Dorian and Felix, but also the police colleagues. Now, Felix is helping the case too. He's proving very useful. You're a bit of a tease though, not letting us stay in that bedroom for longer...
I hope Eddie get to come to the rescue somehow. If he only didn't have to understand his mother's plan. That would confuse him to no end... Oh, please let someone save Wyatt now!
Oh, I've missed these guys! So great with an update!
I'm thinking Dorian is discovering it's really nice to come home to somethong/someone slightly warmer than fish...
Love the detective story too. This is getting to be a page turner.
I really liked the use of space. The vast distances is a good description of how separate he feels from Canan, still the attraction pulling him in. How long can he resist? What will the reaction be?
All actions have consequences, but for Nick to be so made out to be the bad guy by the friends seems very unfair. Maybe he's guilty of confusing the love he had for his friend with love for a lover, but they gave it a fair try. Why should he take the blame? I'm glad he has James.
Oh, another one I hope you expand! Having a merman boyfriend in college has to be interesting, especially if you're studying marine biology. But for how long can Triton be out of the water? Where can they have a meet the parents? Sea side?
As a mom, I instinctively associate with my own kids. The thought of either of them out on the street, desperate and alone just makes me so sad. It would be very interesting to read another story, six months down the line. I'm thinking they have some tough times ahead. Trust isn't easy to build when it's been almost totally destroyed. Maybe Colt is the person to do that. I hope so.
I'm really curious about Gabe now. It would be interesting to read more about him. What happened that day when he got his wings? I guess that date had to be cancelled? Has he ever met a Fallen? Does his boyfriend know his secret? Maybe you could expand on this?
It's strange that being open and honest with those who matter most to us is often so very hard, when it should be easy. I recognised Julian's nervousness so well. The fact that he prepared a slide show on his computer for a romantic gesture was so funny. He might not be a romantic in a traditional sense, but I think he did pretty well.
Who found a way to live in death...
That line is very powerful. As I see it, Max and Horst managed to live surrounded by death and also to live on after death through their strong emotions for each other. A very beautiful poem.
That was really creepy! There's something very wrong with Jason... Brr! First, I thought vampire, now I'm thinking alien.
I think it's a very good prompt response. I want to know more, but at the same time the story stands on its own.
Things are really coming to a head! I read this chapter so fast, it was so exciting. What will happen? I so want Talin and Dimitri to get their trip out if town, just the two of them!
Well, I'm a lawyer and like to follow rules! So of course I had to do the stricter version. Seriously though, I find that by trying to write within the confines of a form, I get help to break out of my usual staccato form of poetry. So the prompts have expanded my thoughts on what poetry can be.
I'm glad that back and forth came through. It was important to me to capture that.
Thanks for your review! And for the prompt!
Thanks for reviewing! As I told you in my pm, the word Duchess just put this particular story in my head. I had planned on writing something else, but couldn't resist.
As for shy or not, I think we can all be shy or not shy given circumstances. If it's an act or not could be debated. I hope to be able to build my vampire a bit more and make his character believable. Same goes for my human. I haven't even named them...
It depends of course what kind of story you are looking for, but a series of stories I really love is JAR's MetaWolf. A whole universe to immerse yourself in. Hot wolves, evil vampires, everything slightly twisted to keep us readers on our toes.
https://www.gayauthors.org/stories/browse/list/?filtertype_6=series&filtervalue_6=71d05a90c6ba1be00f7e2f99948b58a1
So step inside!
Thank you for such kind words. I wouldn't say I mastered it, but it was very interesting to write in this form. The language added to the experience. I also noted once more that translation is an art form all on it's own. Swedish and English are so very different, I almost didn't do a translation at all. Now I'm very happy I did.
Thanks for reviewing! That one word finally made my brain catch on to what I wanted to say. I'm glad the poem seems to work in English, even if the form of Ghazal had to be sacrificed....
Thank you! I don't know if it's better, but I think it's getting easier to get to the heart of what I want to say. The challenges really help to question my writing and hopefully make it progress.
That scene is so powerful I was almost intimidated trying to do it justice.