Comments on: So close… http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/ because I am a short story writer too... Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:12:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andrix Lim http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-482 Andrix Lim Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:52:24 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-482 Wow....absolutely amazing. An extremely touching story, with a hint of angst..... I would love to read more. .-= Andrix Lim´s last blog ..<a href="http://thewritestories.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/the-random-musings-of-an-attention-seeking-author-22022010/" rel="nofollow">The Random Musings of an Attention-Seeking Author – 22/02/2010</a> =-. Wow….absolutely amazing. An extremely touching story, with a hint of angst…..
I would love to read more.
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]]> By: joe yabuki http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-433 joe yabuki Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:59:49 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-433 hmm..its very sad story, sometime a mother doesn't want to make her son upset about what she did..sometimes it can make her son embarrassment about his mother's job as prostitute.. btw, nice story.. hmm..its very sad story, sometime a mother doesn’t want to make her son upset about what she did..sometimes it can make her son embarrassment about his mother’s job as prostitute..

btw, nice story..

]]> By: Roy http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Roy Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:49:30 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-273 I was asking that question myself after writing the story Novz.... perhaps there were changes... big changes... I was asking that question myself after writing the story Novz….

perhaps there were changes… big changes…

]]> By: ceblogger http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-266 ceblogger Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:31:20 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-266 still trying to figure it out. why didn't Benjie recognize her? still trying to figure it out. why didn’t Benjie recognize her?

]]> By: Roy http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Roy Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:16:05 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-265 you're a master of words Jan. you can express what you mean without saying the exact word ;) you’re a master of words Jan. you can express what you mean without saying the exact word ;)

]]> By: Roy http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Roy Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:14:12 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-264 hahaha! thanks for the compliment Jan hehe... sadistic, isn't it? quite unfair... just like life... hahaha! thanks for the compliment Jan hehe…

sadistic, isn’t it? quite unfair… just like life…

]]> By: jan geronimo http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-263 jan geronimo Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:13:40 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-263 My turn to say. Wait, it should have been written, "Pretty much like life...." Ah well, I couldn't resist it, Roy. Can I go now without saying I love your story? I implied it in so many words. I just want to be unequivocal about it now. I love it! :) My turn to say. Wait, it should have been written, “Pretty much like life….”

Ah well, I couldn’t resist it, Roy.

Can I go now without saying I love your story? I implied it in so many words. I just want to be unequivocal about it now. I love it! :)

]]> By: jan geronimo http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-262 jan geronimo Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:10:38 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-262 You're a cruel man, Roy. Such willful display of cruelty. The good news is that's how stories are meant to be written. A writer throws obstacles in his protagonist's life without mercy. Left and right. No breathing room. Or just maybe there are, but only to terrify the hero into thinking, "What more lies ahead? What more misfortunes await me." Such is the stuff that drives good stories. We give our hero hell. We punish him. We don't treat them like pampered guests. Pretty much life. And in fiction as in life the author chuckles, "I never promised you a rose garden, did I." You’re a cruel man, Roy. Such willful display of cruelty.

The good news is that’s how stories are meant to be written. A writer throws obstacles in his protagonist’s life without mercy. Left and right. No breathing room. Or just maybe there are, but only to terrify the hero into thinking, “What more lies ahead? What more misfortunes await me.”

Such is the stuff that drives good stories. We give our hero hell. We punish him. We don’t treat them like pampered guests.

Pretty much life. And in fiction as in life the author chuckles, “I never promised you a rose garden, did I.”

]]> By: Roy http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Roy Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:38:41 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-253 hmm... might be... let's see... hmm… might be… let’s see…

]]> By: a.cantos http://shortstoriesblog.com/2009/08/25/so-close/comment-page-1/#comment-250 a.cantos Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:20:26 +0000 http://shortstoriesblog.com/?p=316#comment-250 is there a part two of this? is there a part two of this?

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