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Rated: 13+ | (4.0)
You're definitely right on the money with your comments on all the old sagas and adventure stories. I always marveled at how a story like Beowulf could be so boring to read in it's original form. Even more modern adventure stories (H Rider Haggard, for example) sometimes seem to follow this "long on exposition, (comparatively) short on action" formula. I think you did a great job of capturing that sort of feeling in the story- with all the pros and cons that go with that style. And the rhyming was nice too, although with a rhyming giant involved, I couldn't help but think of Andre the Giant in "The Princess Bride." So my mental image of the giant might be a little less fearsome than was intended, but that's my own fault. Good story all around.
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Rated: E | (4.0)
Ha. Very funny use of the prompt. I believe anyone who has ever had a dog, or knows anyone with a dog, is familiar with just this sort of argument. Does a great job of turning the scary Norse warrior pictured in the prompt into a real person, instead of just some sort of caricature who "lives only for battle," etc.
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