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41
LOC: Mt Baldy, CA
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: April 23
LOC: Mt Baldy, CA
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: April 23
I live and work in the mountains and try not to go crazy.
I know a lot about crazy because I used to be a shrink.
And maybe I know about crazy for other reasons as well, okay?
I love things that are dark and funny.
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After a while Elisa stopped wanting the same things as everyone else—the husband, the house, the kids—and she started wanting different things, like alcohol and pasta. Not that she was a drunk, or an alcoholic, or a wino, or a lush. Rather, at thirty-eight years old, she was simply learning what to expect from life and what to put away in the garage, behind the old sofa bed from the Salvation Army and the dried out cans of house paint. So far this is what she’d learned: 1. Life’s not fair. 2....
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I think you have a really interesting set-up here, the way you have personified this negative talk, self-hatred, into this character named Billy. In the beginning I thought poor Sophy was a little psychotic, in the way the voice just seemed to come over her in a random way, but by the end, Billy seemed more like self-doubt or self-hatred. In general my feeling is that the story is told too much in summary and not enough in scenes. Every time a transition happens- her parents don’t understand...
A really enjoyable, engaging read overall. I think the philandering David is a little hard to reconcile with the passionate David with the lower libido at the end. Plot and structure feels like it needs a little more work, but overall very enjoyable, and some really interesting, well-written parts. In the first line, “but like the others” – did you mean that there were others moving towards the woman, or that David had moved forward towards others before? If you meant the latter, I think it s...
I really enjoyed reading this, I found it mysterious, romantic and compelling. The beginning and end didn’t match up though, unless I missed something. It starts with “I haven’t seen you in so very long..” and its only the second dream in which the narrator has seen the other person, whereas by the end it seems they are married. (If they are married I would expect the beloved to be in a dream more than once or twice). I like that the whole story is the dream, but it made me expect the reality...
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