Hey there!

When my friend T. Costa told me that this one should have won Best Short Fic, I didn't think of it much. But now, -now-, that I've read it and loved it and teared up, this is a beautiful story that deserves everything it got and everything it didn't, because it's just that compelling. I especially love the way you showed Myrna's character to us, molding her out of the shapeless clay of "Barret's wife" into a lady with character, love and loyalty making equal parts of her.

This is a piece to be proud of and one that I will cherish forever and ever and ever on my favourites list because it's just that good.

Reward yourself, right now. You deserve it.

Love and Cookies,

MR

I am extraordinarily pleased to inform you that your story, Room and Pillar, has been nominated for The Genesis Awards Best Short Fic Category. The Genesis Awards exists to reward the authors of FFVII fanfiction that show a certain standard of grammar and formatting, relevance to canon and characterization. Your story was nominated by Pied Flycatcher and passed to the judging rounds because of the quality your story possesses. On April 15th, the Shortlisting for the Genesis Awards will take place, and on June 15th the final results will be tallied and posted.

If you have any questions or comments, please visit our Fan Fiction Net Profile or The Genesis Awards forum.

Congratulations, and good luck.
Best Regards,

Sai, Co-Admin of The Genesis Awards

This was simply wonderful. It flowed so well and gave me such a vivid view of the characters, settings and so much more. Amazing!

I found your story really difficult to read for two reasons, firstly because I've experienced miscarriage and infertility myself, and secondly because of the tragedy of Myrna's death at the end. However, both were really well handled. I don't know if you've ever struggled with infertility yourself, but I felt that your description of some of the feelings that go along with it were very realistic. Myrna's stalwart nature provided an great counterbalance to the sadness of the story and I found her attitude personally inspiring. "Worrying didn't get nothin' done that hoping couldn't do just as easily". I think I will remember that for a long time.

I also loved the realistic touch that came from the language that you used. The gruff tones really strengthened the characterisation and your use of similies that linked to mining really made me feel like I was there in Corel. It was nice that you focused on Myrna as well because so little is known about her and it's nice to see events from the game from a fresh perspective. I won't favorite, because if I read this again I'll probably cry, but I really do like this story.

This was very well-written, an interesting look at how life would have been in a coal town like Corel. Character voices were really solid, and your choice of imagery, as always, was wonderful. I also loved your attention to detail- the trickle of black spit upon death, the actual reference to a mining system in the title.
Well worth the nomination. :)

i reviewed one of your other fics, and I must say that you are probably the best, all-around good writer on this site. Keep it up!
I also love how you write about the couples that are most probable. I love the older couples (CidxShera, BarretxMirna, etc...)

Such vivid imagery. The atmosphere of Corel feels so real and gritty. It's even more tragic to think that when she died, her child died with her. You've given a lot of depth to an unknown character. Kudos for that.

...I THINK I MAY WANT TO CRY NOW. :'(

Just... wow. sjkfdhkjdf THERE ARE NO WORDS. It's, like, perfect. And it's just so sad that she was pregnant when she died.

w-well done. ;-;

Beautiful. Something that glorifies some of the lesser characters in FFVII's cast. Definitely one of the better stories on the site.

Okay, I, like, officially love you forever now.

Fics like these are a rare treat.

Very gratifying to see something that compliments these lesser known characters.

Very nicely written story. It's been a while since I played Final Fantasy VII, and I had forgotten who Myrna was. Thanks for writing such a great character! Your descriptions made me think of the mining towns in West Virginia (grew up on the East Coast, although in sunny California at the present), and you made both the background and the character believable. There's just enough reference to the game to keep flesh out the descriptions of Corel and still make the setting and people "real." Thank you for writing such a compelling backstory for Barrent's wife. It gives me faith that this site isn't completely full of young teen-aged hacks!

God damn I love your work. You really have a wonderful knack of enriching the world, looking for the backstory and focusing on the people that we get so little information on. And you do it so well. I think what I loved the most about this fic was the language-- rhythmic and colloquial, it was as if Myrna really was narrating this. It makes it feel so much more real. And you give such a wonderful insight onto what the coal mining town was like before Shinra came. Absolutely wonderful. I really do adore your work.

I believe I've said it once but I'll say it once more. You, my friend, are a genius in all matters of writing. You've taken an idea of a character, who we knew nothing about save her name, and ran with her and the result was simply perfection. Myrna is no longer just a name but she's a person in her own right. The phrases and situations you used just made Myrna seem even more real.

I must say I love your originality. In a fandom which I've more or less lost all hope in finding exceptional, original work, you just zip in and whip the rug from under the feet of that feeling. I've enjoyed everything you've ever written for this fandom and this is no exception. I would criticise but in all honesty I can't think of anything to criticise. An excellent story all round.

This site definitely needs more of this type of fic(both in quality terms and originality. Well done!