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LOC: Spain
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: November 17
LOC: Spain
GEN: Female
LAST LOGIN: November 17
I am a physicist by profession but I have a passion for writing. I am a Hungarian-English girl living in Spain studying for my PhD. I am a bit of a Euro gypsy and I grew up between Brighton and Budapest and have been living in Madrid for the last 2 years and before that I lived in Frankfurt.
I am dyslexic and have a confusion with languages (having spent my primary education years in a non-english speaking country) I like to write as a way of overcoming this.
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In a cold, clinical room the neon light flickers, uncomfortably blinking in a semi-seizure. Dr Szabolcs clicks his pen against his notepad in a nervous twitch. He is an old man with a trim white beard and hazel eyes. There is a Freudian air to him as he reclines back in his chair. He studies the patient sitting in front of him. A striking Hellenic figure in flesh and blood with a wild look in his dark, almost black eyes. The room is silent, and the shadow standing in the back to add security ...
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“I want you to whip me.” Aurelio said with a straight face. Lucy nearly spilled her cup of coffee all over her summer dress. “You want me to do what?” She said shocked and mortified, her large blue eyes widening with an almost rodent-like surprise. “I want you to dominate me. I want you to humiliate me and hurt me. I want to be your slave.” He lent forward across the marble table and clutched Lucy's hand. She flinched and reclined back into the plush vel...
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It was the morning after. I stood leaning against my balcony hoping that a cool wind and a cigarette would help me sober up. The sun was already high up in the sky, the market was bustling down below and I was still drunk. I was trying very hard to ignore the sadistic music stand down in the street in front of my house, blaring out the same bloody bachata song which the owner ritually played on loop every Sunday morning. Living centrally has the advantages of being able to stumble home inebr...
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I write this because I am desperate. I write because I need some solace. I am afraid that I am losing the will to live and that I will soon be writing my own death. Nobody will know why. Should anyone care to record my life they would simply assume that I, Isolde Raephtys, Queen of the Southern Kingdom simply went insane and took my own life . I feel the need to justify both to myself and to you, the reader. I justify to you that I am sound of mind. I am not sound in my heart and soul. My on...
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Some technical things: Truly not truely. Some places you need to put in a comma to break up the sentence e.g. "And you don't care how much it hurts..." this needs a comma after hurts. Also be careful of sentences which are too long - break them up into smaller sentences. It would tidy it a bit. I think this counts as a journal piece. I think it is very expressive and worded beautifully. I get some sense of your pain through your words. It is an effective piece of writing, barring some minor t...
You have a nice style of writing. It flows well, but some parts it seems a bit difficult to follow, I wasn't clear if the kids scoured the library before Connor got grounded or afterwards. This I wasn't certain about. The story has potential to be interesting. It feels unfinished for a short story but I see you have put it as a first chapter so if this is a novel this is a good start, as for a short story you need to expand on it. It has potential. You need to be careful with the clarity and ...
Reading the first few lines I noticed the sentences are too long. Maybe break them up into smaller sentences rather then overusing commas. While this piece is very poetically and beautifully written, I was left confused most of the time as to what was going on. It needs more clarity, and it seems you got too hooked in the poetry of the words to convey what the story was about. This is an easy mistake and I know I tend to do this too. I think it is atmospheric, but if you redrafted it concentr...
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