This is an incredible story! Your insight into the characters is fantastic, and rings perfectly true in each case (I love the little throwaway note about how swords are the only thing that Edgar's better than Edmund with - nice foreshadowing there). Love the little moment with Goneril - very wrong, but also very right. But I think what's most amazing about this is that you make Edmund sympathetic without losing the darkness at his core, which makes this really something to read. Bravo to you!

Good lord, when Gulsy recommended this to me to keep me from braining myself with my copy of King Lear, she really gave me a gem. Edmund really is a very twisted character when you think about it (and yes, I've had to think about it very, very hard...essays suck), and you've captured it with enough finesse to turn a man who usually is lost in the annals of analytical papers into a three-dimemsional human. I applaud you. Bravo!

wow... disturbing.
You captured Edmund's character excellently.
(and now I should get back to my essay that also has to do with his character.)

Hi! I'm doing King Lear for school now, and odd to say, i seem to prefer Edmund, Goneril and Regan to the other characters. Hm . . . i wonder why . . .
Anyway, i think this is a great story, and i think it's great that it's in Edmund's point for view, and we get to know what he's really like, his thoughts and feelings. Great job!

wow. This is really nicely written, good characterisation, and a *killer* last line. excellent description too and the world is evoked vividly. Good job!

Oh, wow. Lear fics are rare, and good ones are even rarer. I liked this a lot. It's a good voice for Edmund and a lovely characterisation of Edgar. I'd have liked a little more Gloucester, but it was fine. I loved your description of Cordelia as "earnestly pretty" and Goneril hitting on Edmund was just...creepy. In a good way.

It has so many flashbacks that it would have been easier to read if it were all in past tense; as it is, there's a lot of flip-flopping between tenses that's a little weird and does funny things to the flow of the story.

Still, well done. Hope you write a few more - we need 'em!