Comments on: The Shadow in the Mirror

By: Carole Lanham

Carole Lanham — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:39:17 +0000

Deliciously haunting! This was my favorite line:

“Easy enough to believe that the shadow of her hand was actually the shadow of a tree branch, of a cloth dancing in the wind, a sullen piece of furniture.”

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By: cecy

cecy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:40:16 +0000

this is an excellent story, i really liked it….

By: K. Gregory

K. Gregory — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:19:54 +0000

Unique and creative

By: Willow Fagan

Willow Fagan — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:45:57 +0000

Yeah, the layout is fine for me now. I’m glad too, because this was a good story. I didn’t see the ending coming, although it fits very well with the rest of the story, and the surprise of it made it more impactful.

I think it’s really interesting how, despite the haziness of the setting, the story held my attention and seemed solid, even as so much of the story was about ephemeral things like dreams, memories, shadows. This made it a very interior story, and the vagueness of the external world reinforced that almost all of that world didn’t much matter to the narrator… And yet the story didn’t feel like “navel-gazing”, which is impressive.

By: Jeff Skinner

Jeff Skinner — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:17:31 +0000

Beautifully wicked! I really like your prose!

By: Sean Wallace

Sean Wallace — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:18:34 +0000

I fixed it an hour ago.

By: catrambo

catrambo — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:17:24 +0000

I’m looking at it in Firefox and it looks okay to me. How is it messed up for you and which version are you using?

By: Willow Fagan

Willow Fagan — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:57:19 +0000

Hey, the formatting of this is messed up (at least viewed through Firefox).