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Short Story / the smiths
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when the old woman finally got the door open. i was gone, having sublimated into a heavy gas the likes of which being responsible for the recent deaths of some 30,000 somolias at the hand of the texaco oil company. she pulled and pulled at the knob. she twisted and turned it but the ricekty old door wouldn't budg; perhaps i had never entered the room at all. an axe occured to her but she was afraid that her old hands wouldn't be able lift it. behind the house in the tool shed the old axe hung...
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Short Story / dead dead writer
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It bothers me that he is calling himself a writer now and I know that he's just doing it for proof, proving something to himself, proving something to the vagina opposite self so that it'll embrace him. And while I do it for the same reasons or similar reasons there's a part to his endeavor that is like anything else he does: he is trying to claim another piece of me and it makes me angry. More than anything I find it annoying, this goal of his to be everything I am plus. so now he's a writer...
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Short Story / the bone
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My arm was fucked up but I was more worried about my leg, there was a hole in it all the way down to the bone and I was bleeding all over the fucking the place. I was surrounded by people I didn’t know and they were asking me how I was. The street looked pure, the day was crisp, the sun was shining and I was appearantly bleeding to death; I have lived for thirty years and everything is all wrong. I see my life stretching out behind me, toward nothing. I see my decisions lit up like the mansio...
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Short Story / the rhythm of beating
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There was once a very old king who realized that he was going to die soon. He called his men to him and said: "I am going to die soon but I dont want it to be a difficult transition; what should I do to distract me while I die?" The men went into the gold and blue waiting room with the high-ceiling and talked in low voices. The king, lying fevered and delirious in the next room would hear them sometimes when their voices got louder: "...blue-upholstered mahogany stools..." It was considered t...
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Short Story / gubment
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Two men in orange environmental suits were waiting on me when I got home today. They were in the living room on the sofa; protected from the real world. They had downed two and a half of bottles of port between them via specialized compartments that allowed them to imbibe chemical samples. "Can I get you guys something; a glass of wine?" (The fucks) "Mr. Neal," said the orange one "we're here to watch you die and take notes." I knew it, I KNEW it! I had found the love of my life today. She wa...
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Short Story / Broken Mirabeau ch 1
The story really changes after the description of the storm. you start off with so much purple prose that it kind of threw me off but the sory of their interaction is good plus there are some really good lines in there. Here are the notes i took while reading this piece i hope they help: "Angus Mckracken gives all his weight to a golden ,sofa bean bag.The comfortable velveteen bean bag has attained life raft status in his remedial psyche" --there should be a space after "bag." and the beginni...
Short Story / Madonna Story
thats an odd one: madonna, iraqi christians-- i assume that it was the school that was bombed in the end. i don't remember any major grammatical errors or anything like that. I agree with the message and it left a bad taste in my mouth as intended. i thnk you may have some difficulty getting it published as i think that most magazines anthologies, etc. wouldn't want to be sued by madonna. i wrote a very similar piece about Iman (david bowie's wife) thats on here (its called goon squad or some...
Short Story / Dance of Greed
its well written and interesting. my only criticsm is that i never really understond the significAnce of what was going on and originally took it to be a metaphor for life. this was supported by the fact that the main character is the reader. the piece feels like a small part of a greater work only because there are so many unanswered questions: when did this dance begin? what is the point of of it? who is she? why is it so good as to endure the flames of hell? But, at the same time perhaps p...
There's not alot here to review. what makes it difficult is that this is a very plot driven type of piece but theres not enough plot represented to really review. Its certainly an engaging start and i would have continued to read with interest had there've been more. what there was i liked for the most part. there are two specific areas that i thought were very effective: there's a line that starts: "there are some things that can't stay buried within the recesses.." and then you go on to des...
Short Story / Dry Sea
typically while reading the pieces i am about to review i'll take notes for errors in grammar, sentence structure, etc. none of that here that i saw. in terms of subject matter i think i can see why some reviewers got annoyed with this when it was a poem. i think that sometimes the 'i want her/love her from afar/some close yet so far' theme can seem sappy especially when followed with self debasement: "Phony and hypocritical as I feel" "hating my cowardice, sick of the man I am who is no man ...
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