Reviews for Strangers in Paradise drabbles

Reviews For: Strangers in Paradise drabbles

Telanu 2007-11-17 ch 13,	abuseWonderful. I especially love the drabble from Darcy's POV, and the Sandman crossover too--though of course they're all excellent. You've captured everyone perfectly!
Sarah 2007-11-02 ch 11, anon.	abuseNever told you how I love this. And the 'bustled' is so Casey, and slays me. Also love Tambi's amusement. THe dialogue is so to the point, and I love Casey: ''And I thought I said we'd catch a movie afterwards,' said Casey, unperturbed, and bustled in. 'Dinner and a movie makes a date.' Classic Casey.
breaktherules 2007-06-30 ch 9,	abuseI love SIP and I love these drabbles! Please keep writing and update soon.
Steph 2007-06-29 ch 9, anon.	abuseI love SiP. These are great, you're really talented. Thanks.
Ms. Kinnikufan 2007-03-26 ch 7,	abuseI can't beleive I missed your updates! Poor, poor, Casey, she tries so damn hard...
PutMoneyInThyPurse 2006-07-02 ch 6,	abuseOh, wow. I had to review this, and I will go back and do the rest. When I first saw SiP, I was terrified of something that would, I don't know, desecrate it. You know how good it is, right? But this keeps true to the spirit of the original. The sparse, succinct prose, the poetry that's effortless - showing in the turn of a phrase or in the knowing just where to divide a paragraph. The use of a one-line paragraph to start it: "There are the little things that make up an obsession, and rush a memory into the present." Love your parallel structure here: "make up an obsession/rush a memory" the two transitive verbs, and link "obsession" with "memory". Then the catalogue of sweet things in the second paragraph, again with the parallel structure, with an "and" in the middle and ending with a two-word sweet: "Ice cream and chocolate sauce, marmelade [should be 'marmalade, btw] and whipped cream"... and then the comparison with Francine, divided by the colon, (my jury's sitll out onwhether it might be more eloquent to have a semicolon?) the words rushing just a bit more with the "and"s: "sudden and impromptu and sugary sweet." So much better than if you had said "sudden, impromptu and sugary sweet." The use of the "and"s instead of something more conventional really takes us into Terry's stream-of-consciousness worls, and catapults us into the vortex of Katina's thoughts. And then the wonderful paragraph division, marking very economically the shift from memory to the present, introduced in the first little paragraph. Perfect not having any fullstops in the last paragraph: another catalogue, this time of a series of lonely 'companions' in counterpoint to the sweet things mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Oh, and I loved the image of "a string of bottles, glowing green in the flashing TV light." This is such a perfect little gem, as are the preceding ones. It captures all the poignancy and the heartache. I usually hate drabbles, but you've redeemed the form for me. I never thought I'd be able to find someone who could use only prose to capture Moore's bordering-on-poetry thing that he does.
Night Skye Tears 2005-11-28 ch 4,	abusehm very interesting idea that desire started this whole thing...
Ms. Kinnikufan 2005-10-30 ch 4,	abuseYes, that's so how it happened..
Night Skye Tears 2005-09-21 ch 3,	abuseaw heartwrenching!
Night Skye Tears 2005-09-21 ch 2,	abusei really like this one, its beautiful.
Ms. Kinnikufan 2005-08-08 ch 1,	abuseVery descriptive-I loved the last line.
Ms. Kinnikufan 2005-08-08 ch 3,	abuseI liked the line about being unable to describe sunsets useing painting metaphors. Any chane you'll do one on Casey or gasp Freddie.
Ms. Kinnikufan 2005-08-04 ch 2,	abuseThat would be a Katchooish action.

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