Comments for Occasional Scribe http://www.scan-tech.co.uk/mikealx Fiction, Reviews and Random Ramblings of Mike Alexander Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:52:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on A Good Heart by Himadri http://www.scan-tech.co.uk/mikealx/2010/04/27/a-good-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-362 Himadri Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:52:32 +0000 http://www.scan-tech.co.uk/mikealx/?p=157#comment-362 That was quite a hard-hitting story. The central image is certainly strong, as it needs to be. Perhaps for a story so short, it needed a single focus rather than two - the horror in Sierra Leone, rather than the suicide. Could it be better without the final section, I wonder? - just finishing with the line "He always had a good heart"? But a very powerful punch, nonethelesss, packed in amere few paragraphs. That was quite a hard-hitting story. The central image is certainly strong, as it needs to be. Perhaps for a story so short, it needed a single focus rather than two – the horror in Sierra Leone, rather than the suicide. Could it be better without the final section, I wonder? – just finishing with the line “He always had a good heart”?
But a very powerful punch, nonethelesss, packed in amere few paragraphs.

]]> Comment on Secret Santa’s Christmas Blues by Sandra http://www.scan-tech.co.uk/mikealx/2009/12/16/secretsanta/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Sandra Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:33:34 +0000 http://www.scan-tech.co.uk/mikealx/?p=1#comment-2 I LOVED this story - so festive - and yet so cynical. The twist's great - I didn't see it coming. Best bit was the idea that the garage is a blind-spot for avatars - because - let's face it - who does WOODWORK any more... Fab. I LOVED this story – so festive – and yet so cynical. The twist’s great – I didn’t see it coming. Best bit was the idea that the garage is a blind-spot for avatars – because – let’s face it – who does WOODWORK any more…

Fab.

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