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Translucently Opaque 2006-08-31 . chapter 1
Well, when you said it was shortie, you weren't kidding! "Snow had slipped into his boot making his feet turn number and number with every passing second." This sentaence may sound better of you say "more numb (or more and more numb) with every passing second." When I first saw "number" I thought, like, 1 2 3 4 etc. I also agree with the suggestion that the other reveiwer made. This seems like it would be an awesome prologue. It definetly leaves you wanting more. I will forever wonder what happened. : )
Kanarthi 2006-06-26 . chapter 1
First of all, people might be more inclined to review your work if you don't beg for reviews (it is very annoying). Though I suppose it was effective. I reviewed mostly just to tell you how annoying it is to beg for reviews. That's probably sending the wrong message, but whatever.

Also, you're not using correct grammar (a book junkie should know how to). "Knifes" should be "knives." "Ware" should be "wear."

"From his boots to the lines carved into his face, dull blue eyes that had seen too much," isn't a sentence. You need a verb somewhere in it. Maybe it should be, "From his boots up to the lines carved into his face and the dull blue eyes that had seen too much he was... " or something.

Also, there isn't much to say about this. It is really too short. If you made it into poetry, it might work, but as it is, there is nothing to think about. You just wrote something for the image/scene. I do this too occasionally, but if I want to turn it into a story and have other people say stuff about it, I usually try to ask myself questions and add to it. Since the story is so short, the reader doesn't really have any feelings about it; if you added to it, it might be really nice.

Anyway, from this point on I'm being super picky, and you can ignore anything I say if you don't agree with me.

"Snow drifted on the wind and hit him in the face, stinging and feeling like knifes on his skin." This doesn't really fit in with the tone, I think. You start by approaching the man and describing him as if it is the beginning of a movie scene, but then you suddenly start describing what the man is feeling. To avoid this, you might want to change it to "Snow drifted on the wind and hit the man in the face. It must have hurt, but he didn't seem to notice it," or something (though that's not a very graceful solution; you can probably come up with something better). However, I also have a problem with the next couple of sentences for the same reason, so you might want to change the beginning instead. It's up to you. (Or, of course, you could ignore all this and do nothing).
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