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rivka
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Ok, maybe it IS a female author. [Dont Know]

Jenny Gardener?
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Well, I'm not much of a critiquer, but I will say that "blowing the flickering of candles to and fro." confused me a bit.

Going with the young and female bit, I'll guess Annie.
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Ok... I guess Noemen because
  • No-one's picked him yet
and
  • I think maybe we're all wrong on the female author tack
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nonono
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In that case, my next guess is :Locke. Quite frankly, because he said he turned something in. Does that count for a reason or do I get negative ten?
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You get positive five. [Smile]
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Yay!
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[Grumble]
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Just stop it rivka! [No No]
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You know, I thought of :Locke, but I rejected it because this wasn't absurdist enough.

*shrug*
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I'm throwing out a second guess - Advice for Robots - because of the comment made on page 2. Just seems kind of suspicious.

Unless :Locke was a correct guess. Wasn't sure if that was the meaning behind the points discussion.

[ November 19, 2003, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: beatnix19 ]
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rivka
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[Razz] to elaine. If I want to mutter bitterly, I will -- so there!
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Ding, Ding?

I guess it was Locke:

<laughs> I can't believe nobody guessed Locke: earlier (Iwouldn't have), after the comments on the previous thread.
Wait, did you delete all that stuff or am I going mad? Or both?

Way to play us, dkw. [Big Grin]
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Okay...I missed my chance to guess, I guess, but here's a critique for what it's worth:

"There she stood" is too weak a beginning. "She stood" would be better, I think.

Is the stone altar old beyond reckoning, or the woman/girl? A quibble. Sorry.

"the flickering of candles" bothered me. I guess I would've phrased it differently.

The mood is dark & foreboding. I could maybe wish for some different choices of adjectives. Like, instead of "a light wind" (which uses the word light in an otherwise "dark" passage) you might use something like "a faltering wind" OH I DON'T KNOW. Maybe play with it a bit and see if you can't find some other adjectives that line up better with the moood of the piece??

Bob

I guess whoever it was that wrote it.
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Wow.

I feel like I should say that it was just about this time in November when I began to stop even lurking, and was fully detatched from Hatrack. I had no idea that this thread existed. I was even more suprised to find that one of my pieces was up here, and even more surprised after that to find that people though I was a woman-- not that I'm offended, or anything. I'm sorry I didn't answer to this thread to confirm, but, like I said, I wasn't even aware that it was here.
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