Oh my god. Your way with words, it's fascinating. I read the first few lines of this fic and I was thinking "I HAVE to read it, it's amazing!"

The emotions the words express and the metaphorical situations.

I love it all.

VERY well done. I've read the Heingway and I see what you mean ;)

Wow. As much as I love the romantic style of your other pieces, I think you're great with the short, declarative sentences. The symbolism seems so much more powerful with them, and it's a testament to your genius that you can create a work so beautiful in such a stylistically simple, limiting style. Short sentences exclusively can be extremely difficult to work with and to examine two people's essences within that is just incredible.

I too can suspend my knowledge of Judaism (my dad is Jewish; I am not) and enjoy this piece. Many of your works have a few sentences that's beauty is incredibly striking. This one seems to be composed of them (wax tears, tetris blocks, etc.) and is I think one of the best you've done.

When are you going to write another fic? Even if it's not soon, I really hope you write one eventually.

This was beautifully written. I can even suspend my knowledge of Judaism for five seconds, this is so well-written.

I can also ignore the fact that I have a sneaking suspicion that this is Cuddy/Wilson...

Hm...

Well, I suppose I should shed my shell of anonymity (Review1234) and finally leave you a signed review, seeing as you're on my favorites and alerts lists. Hello. I love your work. You're amazing, as you've probably heard quite a few times, I imagine. Well, thankfully, it's true.

Where to begin? Maybe by telling you that this is, like anything you write, brilliant beyond words? Sure, that works.

Your characterization is perfect, and the use of the present tense, as it often does, allows the reader to be more...involved in the story (although that's personal opinion). For me, I can clearly see the tears streaming down Cuddy's face, Wilson's hand rubbing circles on her back, the dying candles trying to survive on used wax. It's simple, but you, the ingenious author, also blend into it more complicated themes. You explore Wilson's need for attention, and you also explore Lisa's grief. It's beautiful, insightful, and just...inspiring.

And symbolic? I hope so. I do enjoy how the candle Lisa always chooses dies first, and she is the first to "tire" of trying not to love Wilson. She, like the candle, "gives in" after not having enough strength to keep doing what she has always done. Goodness, there are no words for your genius.

This is certainly another Bellsie classic that is going on my favorites list, and I thank you. Your writing, honestly, is prominent in the world of fanfiction, and with solid reasoning. So please, do keep writing.

definitely an interesting take on their relationship. I liked how you verbalized how alike yet dissimilar they are and how silence is always more betraying than words. really well written, really enjoyed reading it!
Ava

Ah, experimenting with your writing style are you? That's nice ^_^. I just want to say I truly think you're one of the most talented people on this website (I must be the umpteenth person to tell you this but you should know :) ).
I love this story, while I don't ship HC or CW, I think CW is cute and I loved the bittersweet, semi-sarcastic (James' affliction of attention) and poignant but simple tone of this story. And you have a way with words (the comparison with tears and melted wax, facades, lovely), you truly do.
And on a last note, although I am not Jewish, I am spiritual and religious and I loved the fact that were prayers at the beginning and the end of the fic. They were a beautiful touch :).

That was so beautiful!

Good job!

.. wow. just .. there isnt anything i can say except wow

*elf hugs and kisses*
Laivine

Damn. That was good. Really, really good. I liked that a lot.

Beautifully written. Love your descriptions...wax tears...Excellent!

I like the simplicity, how you get so much revealed with not a lot of wordiness (is that a word?). Ha. I enjoyed it.

Very good! Interestingly done, and your experimentations with your style are effective. Interesting too for a Catholic who knows little of Hannukah :). Well done.

This is very, very good. You use your words so well- and examine the backrounds of Wilson and Cuddy perfectly. Please write more, I wonder how you'd do with comedy? ^_^