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How are the votes going to get counted? Is not voting an effective down vote or does "it's okay" work as a down vote? There's 2 or 3 poems/stories I f...

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Solid work but failed to resonate with me. Not the writer's fault I'm sure. It feels a bit too careful somehow, if that makes sense.

I enjoyed it. It's a bit rough around the edges, I'm suspecting a non-native English speaker. But it has a certain charm that resonated with me. It's ...

Why am I reading this as a victim tied up in the basement of a serial killer?

Second quibble on my second readthrough: It could be made clearer what's going on. It resolves itself in the end of course but I stumbled over it, eve...

I'm suspecting Baden. He has a thing for accents.

:lol: It's filled with mid-line rhyming. It doesn't bother me to be honest. What do you think is the reason mid-line rhyming doesn't work for you? May...

Bloody fantastic! Better than my own entry, I'm sorry to say. The muppet who voted "it's ok" can go choke on Shaun's dick. If I have to niggle, I foun...

I'm taking about the short stories actually. Poems are a first time event after all. I notice more craftsmanship to the stories compared to the time b...

Returning member under a different name?

The quality is up from last time. Well done to all entrants!

It's okay. The disgusting disgusted me, which is good. Make me vomit on the morning, that means your descriptions are spot on (and no, it wasn't becau...

Nope. True story. Mozart wrote some crap in his time too. We can't bat a 100. Or however the US saying goes.

How pathetic would it be if it's Trump vs. Biden again?

I'm after the evocation of experience in a novel way. If it doesn't do that, I'm bored and don't like it as poetry. So it's first about what's said (o...

Mr. Sock then. Obviously.

Considering this comment and the other one about meter, we are definitely on different wave lengths! :lol:

Stop spouting propaganda. There was no Russian hoax. Mueller's report showed several issues that could've been prosecuted.

:up:

Yes, my chances of winning are again slim. Bastards...

Just vote everything you didn't think was outstanding with "it's okay", that way votes reflect what people, who actually read them, think the best.

Of course you did, it had prostitution in it! I'm thinking porn shoot though.

I already went into that before so no need to repeat. I treat it as a poem, not a haiku.

What's up with so many entries, you fuckers?! "Ooh, I got writer's block". Lying gits.

Not my cup of tea. And derivative enough that I'm certain I read this, or something very much like it, before. In other words, I didn't feel something...

I felt am itch to make the slightest improvements, which I only get when I think it's really good and just needs some dotting i's. Really enjoyable.

From the poems I read so far this starts off in a lovely rhythm but unfortunately falters first in the third paragraph, but it still works (although I...

What's the message?

The meter is all over the place and it reads a bit like a first draft as a result. I think this needs a few more iterations. Luckily I read the commen...

I voted it's OK. I tried to set aside my dislike for attempts of haiku in English and are left with probably missing why certain choices were made. Fo...

All the facts concerning his crimes are in the past. Unlike you I've got a good grasp of criminal law.

Like almost everything American nowadays it's a show. It's been politicised, precisely as Trump wanted, in which law, evidence and facts no longer are...

I don't know why everyone is arguing with NOS4A2. Trump will go to jail. He'll never except that. Nobody gives a shit.

Yup. And now I have to rewrite leaving out all the fucks anyways because otherwise people will realise it's mine.

It's censoring my story! It returns it minus any "fucks". :rofl:

0% in my case. I couldn't even manage a proofreader this time so I'm sure it's full of shitty mistakes.

Did you even read what Michael wrote? Because your answer has no bearing on the examples given under a, b, d and e.

I'm sure with your psychology degree the vegetables are a bit more depressed nowadays.

1982 for me. I was 4 at the time.

My longterm game plan is to be as hurtful and destructive as possible so nobody dares to enter the literary competition anymore and I'll always win by...

What criticism? You're usually ridiculously forgiving in your review of the stories. Try harder this time, will you? Like: reading this felt like the ...

A win is a win. I don't care how I get it. :kiss:

Stop encouraging them. I like no competition and easy winnings.

I enjoy things that are okay. Now I'm thinking I have low standards... :worry:

That was it. I just think it's funny someone would demand people not discuss US politics in a... checks notes... thread about Trump. I saw a parallel ...

I wish you Americans would stop making unreasonable demands of the rest of the world and then act surprised we take issue with it and have a commensur...

The off hand comment on poetry man. May you burn in the deepest pits of hell.