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Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (4.0)
Dec 21, 2006
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Suppose we take ourselves away from the fancy tree, away from the complaints about shopping, away from the constant need for ridiculous factory decorations to be just so with every item now whizzing under the Christmas logo. I note Santa Claus shower curtain rings at the store, snowman rugs, angel towels of red.

Come here, little ones. Here is a fictious babe, in a heart wrenching situation in any home town from LA to Kansas City to the Bronx to Raleigh.

SO ... OF those empty pocketbooks we're so proud of ... maybe we should be glad we have wallets to buy food to feed those we love.

Star, imagining this one is a bit like between the haves and the have nots and very appropriate in the generous mood of the season.

Thanks, Cordially,

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Review by April Sunday
Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
Dec 19, 2006

From the portfolio of Blkstarline comes an incredible read. A funny short story and an entertaining one. Let's hope the newsletter writers for Comedy & Short Stories stop over to read this author's work a.s.a.p.

Cunningly enough we encounter the step by step inside the house with old Earl and a dry tub while daughter and grandson play second fiddle to grandma's interruptive phone call.

Inside the philosphy of several major characters a backdrop appears before our eyes while each paragraph offers a peddlar's extravaganza of witty details.

A hard one to beat --- the best of the best, available now in EARLS PLAYING BY HIMSELF, MAN.

Make haste, gang. This is the one to read for sheer bite plus wild entertainment.

Congratualtions, B, this is extremely well worked, well written and very well done.

Cordially, TEFF

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Review of The Cat's Miaow  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (3.5)

Dec 18, 2006


THE CAT'S MIAOW by Lana is a contest entry for flash fiction of 1,000 words.

The story bodes well in syntax, grammar and punctuation. Almost, waiting to expand perhaps at paragraph junctures.

Perhaps when the contest ends plot-line will see the sense of adding to the story.

Tha abrupt end is exactly what many might dream of in the ever-popular downsize situation. The main character's reaction to Jessica's desk spells the conculsion.

Is it not meow?

Anyways, welcome to WC and a Happy Holiday this month to you and yours, dear author.

Good Job! Word limitations are hard to develop sometimes and this story does an exceptional job offering much information within the mere 1K words.

Cordially, TEFF

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Review of Reality Fatigue  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (4.5)
Dec 18, 2006

Hey there Malibu, your work: REALITY FATIGUE meets a revver who from those first years --- (2003?) of more and more reality television shows, now supposedly filmed in spots dubbed international where people are often starving or emersed in water. I fully agree with your take on the network situation of cheaper is better.

No! Au contraire, nix on Reality TV. Where are the documentaries these days, sparse in the content, of course? For maybe we as audience craved newer shows of the ilk of Frazier. But no, we weren't lucky out here in Mr & Mrs Audience-ville.

Malibu, you're absolutely correct. Instead we got reality TV shoved down our throats and I for one do not watch these.
Better to curl up with a good book.

Thanks for this one which needs to be stated.

Season's Greetings.

Cordially, TEFF

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Review of The Mid-Hills #2  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (4.0)


Dec 17, 2006

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Pssst?
jeff? jeff? wake up, doll you forgot to tell Miss Teff the place ... jeff? Name the setting, but then it hits, one does recals Mid Hills. Wasn't it in Cally?

Yes, the story is good, the reversal to fantasy and Teff sitting on the edge of the chair with "Someone or something ...

Where oh where is wide low to the ground girth of the vile creature which T imagines as taller than Modesta Gamble. Yet Mike Myers fat as wide as your unidentified year of make of the so called Volvo. Granted glib, but helpful.
I mean you no disresepct; I read a lot, jeff.


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Folks are new, they just joined, other members into a Oct stint 2K4 or hanging, kids. Although post 8 rev badges since conception ... Teff Revs try to compliment any authors stamina to produce the finished readable product. Thass all. No offence ever meant. It say critique up there on PRP.lll llll lllllllll lllllll llllllllllllllllllll

Me (?) Okay, still own a junkyard Volvo, '80 coupe, coffee cream, needs driveshaft, tires & 6 gear tranny.

Maybe Penny tries too hard, me thinks, while liking plot in sight.

Grammar, spelling, punctuation & dialogue firm. Needs basic shortening. Here's a hint: concentrate on less ands. Always helps.

This one, MIDHILLS continues --- your old pal,

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merits A ---- "Members, ladies & gentleman, and all the ships at sea. Mr & Mrs America ... pick up that clicker, read this ONE! Teff pick of the week."

Glory glory, happy Holidays!

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Review of Global Terror  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (3.5)

Dec 17, 2006
GLOBAL TERROR, a poem from the pen of peakn serves to remind us that there are not just two sides to every story, peace & war, or right and wrong.

Instead the poet offers a possible tried & true quest for answers via (unsure) negotiations at a bargaining table, prayer and perhaps another look at a intolerable injustices.

Good attempt to air those pesky old views, Peakn, dear.

Cordially,

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Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (4.5)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

Picture if you will the sentence: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, search for a headline, start a story in the WC workplace of winning authors.

Step back read carefully:

all rights including reproduction.

Go HUH.

Okay one million for a screenplay adaption vs

the prize, ladies & gents ......

The proverbial persnickety everr-amous Harvard LawSchool of Workploace Lit 101 and this baby is RIGHT (writers ritea are where now? Say what?

The encsonce yourself to enter

Go to MF3 for follow-up in the public eye ...

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Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (5.0)

Hello? Hello the house we say in the south.

I strongly laud your punctuation, my dearest.

Also I wish to publically thank you for telling about Lancaster in the UK. My editor is in the UK, so you must simply write to him. George Johnson, such the outright writer of talent who recognizes all his authors.

See Mary Moffett (me) www.uhad2bthere.com.uk

Then when all is said and done, my newest fabulaous writer, must TEFF again elaborate in over 1,200 revs sent to fellow WC members ... surely with research as in

Please, if I may ... maybe here's your laugh, Nackmeister.

Since you are yet awake: a Pub Rev page tie in to the UK --- online ---

"THE RIPPER RETURNS TO WHITECHAPEL COURT"  with contest savy,

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Nice to met, you old chap. Carry on!

Thanx for this wonderful informative article about your home town across the pond.

TEFF

Cheerio!
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Review of Devotion to Duty  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: 13+ | (4.0)

Nov 1, 2006

Few authors or poets dare to venture into the genre of "war."

Believe it or not with a first person narration DEVOTION TO DUTY crests the pages of Auto Rewards where over 9,000 items wait there for our earstwhile perusal.

And it is Fyn who tells it like it is .. deadly and dangerous over there.

Hats off to this author once more today.

Cordially,

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Review of Winter Venture  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (5.0)

Nov 1, 2006
All Saints Day, Dear fyn.

Of WINTER VENTURE, safe to say, Wow!!! Wow, Fyn. This one shows the reality to terms like outdoing oneself. For this prose/ account is perfectly marvelous.

Fyn presents a look back on a quiet calming country life. Kittens in the barn, ice on the ponds.

When Scary leaves the site, here on WC, authors, poets and web world guests, don't miss this balmy touch of a winter explained from the incredible pen of Fyn.

Thank you, hon, loved it, simply loved the entire thing.

Cordially, TEFF

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Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (4.0)

Oct 24, 2006

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all readers of PRP.

Here comes a brief bio down the chute with a tiny look at the person behind the novels and short stories which keep us interested and on our toes.

It is also nice to hear from a published author just how it is done.

Ross Perot? Oh, my, but gotta give the guy a thumbs up for daring to take on an entire country when strife wasn't as equally paramount as it is today. So sure, Ross Perot, one can see it.

Best in all you do, and enjoy writing, Ms Judity Buxton and thanks for the insight, glad to meet you.

Cordially, TEFF

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Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (4.0)
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In REVIEW OR CRITIQUE, WHICH IS IT? "professional" author, Budroe captures a reviewer's philosophy by the tail and gives it a shake.

What is not said is that a Review is undefine-able person by person. But believe it, much of value is stated.

Often in a comedic manner, for the read is far from dull, while underlines and bold emphasis an importance the author wishes to place on the value of the article, one can not help but snicker at "Yak school." One of the highlights of the piece which brings one (as reviewer or reader) to a handsome standpoint.

From this work, Budroe, I now safely gain advice which beleagured me all along. Namely, by your small sampling and explanation of how you rev, that we almost all rev in our own ways. You in yours, evident from this item.

The rest of us, myself inclued, rev as we rev. Period. While contemplating the difference of a rev and a critique yet once more the real, that's R-E-A-L meanings of both are sadly missed in the rush to include oneself. Sad but true. Almost as if spin is not only now associated with "govmint" speak, a pronounciation from S of the Mason Dixon line. Me(?) I like dicitonary meanings, which are facts. .... But now associated with calling a Yak person a catchall for all seems to sway way backwards from what is a review?

However, reading a little more carefully, backtracking the item at hand, one can gain from this take on reviewing in any case.

Now to go public or private here, Holmes is indeed the question. So tossing the proverbial coin as I mean you no harm while rating above. In fact toying with the idea of writing another rev piece myself lately. For what I really think and have observed on writing.com methods of revving besides:

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#945969 by April Sunday


Sometimes threatening new Teffom thoughts on revs, brand new thoughts on revving --- Since ideas plague me sometimes. However, these slip away fast, like fluff from dandelions in a hurricane tempest. And here I thought to find answers to questions, I had on topic. Sadly this was not the case. So public it is, Holmes. BUT the subject naturally needs more play to it from all sides and all viewpoints. We in truth need something else to work with around here. And in that sense your piece does excell for a method of revving is now once more outlined for all of the internet world to behold.

So guests, revvers, audience, authors, moderators, those in high office, and interested parties, poets, critics, try this one on for size.

And if the shoe fits as snuggly as Budroe's loafers, well then so be it.

Cordially,

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Review of Pearls  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (3.0)

October 16, 2006

PEARLS, poem from Roisin Dubh offers the twirl of the dance as talk of the reasons for pearls ensue.

Kinda sweet, actually.

Enjoyable this crisp Monday morning before www ooo === work ....Hey gotta run. Later.

Don't miss sequel in progress @

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TEFF needs scary contest entries & posters stat.

Poetry accepted this year in the annual JTR contest, Dubh.
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Review of Chains of Ice  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (3.5)


October 15, 2006

When moments of love recede, and anger flairs from outside pressure, best to say so if you are a ranter. Here we encounter a narrative in first person which shows us the beauty of a daughter smiling.

Good job for CHAINS OF ICE a composition from Suthernprincess.

Cordially,

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Review of Raspberries  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: 13+ | (3.5)

Oct 16, 2005

Magee, you've got a quiet, relaxing kind of story with RASBERRIES.

Your woods scenes tell readers of a familiarity with forests and the falling scene is easily adapted.

Of the berry picker stepping back to survey the other two parties ... a slight mixup occurs at that point. For then this revver thought there were two men at the scene, live fellows, that is. So a bit of an edit there.

Best luck in all future writes.

Cordially,

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Review by April Sunday
Rated: 13+ | (3.0)
Saturday, 10/13/06

Tickles Maggee offers WHEN THE RATS RUN AWAY a seving of flash fiction.

Like ambulatory phrases regarding the walking person going into the city sunlight.

" ... followed me in hopes that I knew where I was going."

And the author also manages to tell a story that asks what does this character really have up his sleeve? Or what is the nameless male's MO exactly?

Good title, mentioned in the item itself.

Cordially, Teff on the trail of

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Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (3.5)

Oct 14, 2006

Good Morning! So we've all survived another Friday the Thirteenth ...

Onto the review for Amelie's DARK PURPLE SPARKS.

Dear Amelie: Like the way your style of poetry opens with action on stanzas in present tense (my favorite tense) then blends in a four liner to a description. Which gives flow to the cadence.

Cordially, TEFF

Poetry accepted at:

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Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (3.5)

Oct 13, 2006

The above item from the tell-tale pen of Unsliced (who doesn't eat aliced bread} outlines four typess of roles in society as pertains to the States primarily.

When one graduates college these days, however much wishful rumor sparks acceptance of the better jobs this is not always the case. Since employment is not the same as it was twenty years prior to this essay on society's inhabitants.

While the author may offer subjects such as Tim McVeigh and Batman movie's The Penguin, of which Divoto did the fine acting job BTW .. the reader is left none-the-less with the beginning concepts of --- essay work as opinion along the "proverbial road" and tackling definitions concerning the author's "hurdles of life."

Which all makes for a very entertaining read, despite viewpoint of course outlines in Sociology which readers may bring to the table.

Dear Unsliced: At our table, reading was encouraged but Dad didn't like my Sociology book so he used to push the Phila. Inquirer in my direction which was a much better read, of course, especially the funnies.

Personally from TEFF
Whoops gotta run, my wheat toast just popped up.

Hope to see more from the talented pen of author/ Unsliced.
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Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (3.5)

Oct 13, 2006

THE FLAMES OF LIFE from the poetic pen of D J Sherwood offers a second look at fire as comparisons to life's trials and beneficial lightness aapproach daily lives.

Good ploy, enjoyable poem.

Well, as they say, dear author ....

Write on!

Cordially from: Teff has 8 review badges .... Hosting ....
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And hey Sherwood, poetry's welcome this year.
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Review of Three  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: ASR | (3.5)

Friday the Thirteenth of October, 2K6

Need a riddle, or a laugh? Try one of the short stories Ledgerman suggests in this weeks Short Story Newsletter.

Namely THREE from Andrew C Bowman.

Proof once more flash fiction/ essay writing is as easy as pie to entertain with a touch of humor.

Thanks Andrew. YES!!! We're accepting flash fiction this year at:

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All Entries welcome, 600 views per day.

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Review of Fat Witches  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: 18+ | (4.0)

Friday the 12th of October, 2K6

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offers the perfect spot to get in the Halloween mood.

Imagine a ton of tubbies, everyone overweight.

Now add the mix of whitchcraft to the brew and watch these interactive writers stir up a little mayhem for reader pleasure.

Best of all, join in and take part in the magical presentation set in a small town.

GREAT stuff!

Cordially, TEFF has 8 reviewing badges

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Review of The Duke  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: 13+ | (4.0)

Oct 12, 2006

It is a very good thing contest/ judge/ Tornadoday is doing the poetry this year in

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as well as Laurencia for things are absolutely heating up around here.

LON, dearie ... Thanks for your entry, a fine poem about a very nasty spree killer who pounded a beat in Tower Hamlets, oh way back in 1888. But always available each and every single Halloween. Yikes, now, I'm really scared.

How about you, dear readers? Poets? Are you too willing to ride the daily JTR Express?

Best to all contestants, and reviewers wherever they may be.

Thanks, Lon, this is startling stuff!

THE DUKE from Lon a member of the Writer's League.

Happy Halloween, dear author, a bit early.

Cordially, TEFF


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Review of Between Two Tides  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: 13+ | (3.5)

Oct 10, 2006

Somehow, dear author, you've everything going here which a story needs. BETWEEN TWO TIDES is a catchy title. There is much directness. Yet, would like to see .... Greetings my name is _________, thus the first person narrotoir is identified.

My name is _____ and it the year of Our Lord __________.

Of Massachusettes, isn't Kennebeck in Maine?

To give the characters depth whether birthing babies is their thing or not, perhaps the entire family might have a surname after more than 16 plus kb's which leaves the reader completley seraching for:

A. A time era of the past since most readers like a century date and we bring that to the table.

Or B. A little more on geographic setting of the New England States which now seems awash like a nothing place.

Can not grasp fanfiction genre here. If this is modeled on another former tale, perhaps a quote in that direction.

Cordially, TEFF

Offering prizes and tie-ins to warrant more prizes and recognition.

All authors welcome @

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Review of Sky Melody  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (4.0)

Oct 10, 2006

Wow, dearest Amelie, this one is great. Feelings of nature and love abound in SKY MELODY which offers the prefect title for a poem complimenting nature and the romatic side of all humanity as the poem addresses an unseen audience.

Thank you, Amelie, for this one opens the mind to the world outside our windows. At least seen by this revver between the lines.

Cordially,

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Review of Dreams of Evasion  
Review by April Sunday
Rated: E | (4.0)

Oct 10, 2006

Found on Read-A-Newbie Page, where over 1,700 items grace the confines of Writing.Com where poet Amelie is up and running with DREAMS OF EVASION.

Hard to beat the rhymes once more with this well constructed poem.

Opening lines grab reader attention in an eloquent intro which sets the pace.

Love: "Dreams of Evasion thrill unseen ... Stress screaming at silence ..."

Very good, dear author, keep them coming.

Welcome to WC.

Cordially:

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