Comments for An Unreliable Witness

Comment on Winged messenger by Helios

Helios — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:15:24 +0000

Your literary skill is impressive, to say the least. In a few short words you’ve portrayed what seems like a dry siege of the spirit. Hemmed in by her past, by the world, by the watching walls without a kindred spirit except a tiny bird that brings some vague but precious impression of the world beyond.

Well done.

Comment on Winged messenger by jem

jem — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:04:17 +0000

I love this. It has a tone that appeals to me, and you handle that tone so well. I love the images that shift and repeat. In addition it made me think of Nirvana’s ‘Polly’.

Comment on Winged messenger by Marvin K. Mooney

Marvin K. Mooney — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:11:23 +0000

Silence can be so unconvincing, but you butter the silence and with popcorn we can eat the fruit of your wordage.

Comment on Winged messenger by Emma

Emma — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:13:47 +0000

Could anyone be more real than Vow is, at this very moment? I feel like she’s perfect, or at least perfectly embodied.

Comment on Winged messenger by Lex

Lex — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:17:10 +0000

I knew a woman called Vow when i was little. This sounds uncannily like her…

Comment on Winged messenger by l./m.

l./m. — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:48:56 +0000

What can I say? In a single page you give the reader hope, desperation, sweetness, sadness — and visions, and violent reality. I want to be Vow, and I want to be the bird; and in a way I want to be *you*. That means: this short story is perfect.

Comment on Whither tumour? Whither growth? by An Unreliable Witness

An Unreliable Witness — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:51:47 +0000

How rude of me. I’m really out of practice at this blogging / writing / whatever you want to call it kind of thing. (See, so eloquent, me.)

HG — Thank you.

l. / mia — Two ellipses? I am …

Rose of Montague — Nothing else? Really, don’t apologise. That’ll certainly do.

Otto — Boo, er, yo?

Angelalala — Where have you been? Don’t you know that eyelids are *so* 2007, dahlink?

Lex — Plain parchment. Oh yes, I can empathise.

Comment on Whither tumour? Whither growth? by Lex

Lex — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:57:01 +0000

This made me feel happy. It also made me want to run my hand over a plain piece of parchment… I am not sure why

Comment on Sandbox by Lex

Lex — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:53:18 +0000

It’s been a while since I have been here. I forget why I left in the fist place.

Comment on Whither tumour? Whither growth? by Angelalala

Angelalala — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:48:13 +0000

Aww, you gave me a tumour for christmas! How sweet!

Where are the eyelids, dammit?!

*mwah*

Comment on Whither tumour? Whither growth? by ~otto~

~otto~ — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:12:34 +0000

Booya

Comment on Whither tumour? Whither growth? by Rose of Montague

Rose of Montague — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:00:27 +0000

Very nice. Nothing else to say other than it’s fantastic.

Comment on Whither tumour? Whither growth? by Hg

Hg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:37:03 +0000

I need to say more. Oddly, this reminds me of something I wrote earlier this year and never published. I read it again this morning, re-considered and still didn’t have the balls.

But fuck it… thanks for the inspiration. The long-overdue fifth installment of Dwarf Star Origami (a series that is all about collapsing inwards) has finally seen the light.

Now to consider whether also to release the similarly unpublished sixth piece in the series…

Comment on Whither tumour? Whither growth? by l./mia

l./mia — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:32:02 +0000

… …

Comment on Whither tumour? Whither growth? by Hg

Hg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:26:51 +0000

Breathtakingly good.

Comment on Sandbox by James Bent

James Bent — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:53:50 +0000

I have not written everything else you wrote, so I can’t love it all. But this was good. It reminded my of Eddie Izzard playing Darth Vader (Jeff Vader) in one of those Lego videos on YouTube.

Although, actually, fuck it. I now feel for the cardboard box. The shock of what you did, the interesting and objective spectacle of it had been suspended in this excited unsympathetic place — I found myself gorging on the death of the cardboard box.

But then, when I started to think about it, it was in-boxane. It was wrong. You should be ashamed.

Shame. Shame. Shame.

Comment on Sandbox by Emma

Emma — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:01:44 +0000

I can’t find a way of writing a comment that doesn’t parallel the above commentator’s in its entirety. So I will just agree. I also love everything you write, absolutely everything.

Comment on Sandbox by l./mia

l./mia — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:13:51 +0000

I do not want to start a comment, any comment, saying “I”, but I can not find a different way to say: I love everything you write. I do love every single word you write. And now, kill me.

Comment on Queries regarding the disabling of a reflective canine by K

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:33:08 +0000

Hello, Lurch (I do hope I can call him that). Maybe someday we’ll meet and weep into our warm pints of beer together (except I don’t drink beer).

Also… well said.

Comment on Queries regarding the disabling of a reflective canine by Ani

Ani — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:14:10 +0000

You too?! Whoa. Spooky!