Recent content by Seven Crowns

1. Only one story per person. 2. You can submit your work elsewhere. The contest sub-forum is not publicly visible and so the work is still "unseen" by the net. I've seen publications state directly that they didn't care about this, and you can have stories in forums to be critiqued / edited...

"I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before." — Mitch Hedberg

I like it. It's evocative. I'd sort it like so . . . Clothes discarded, done actively, not as a description Move quickly to the character, which you've naturally done Move to the setting to explain that the pool is near the ocean End on her thought. Vhairi let her biohazard suit crumple to the...

Cool. What was the contest prompt?

I didn't like "Underwater" that much. It was a beat-for-beat "Aliens" ripoff. I mean, it was cool seeing that Cthulhu thing at the end, just the visual of it. That was about it. My favorite cosmic horror movie of recent times was "The Color Out of Space." That was so well done. Oh, I did like...

It's like Beethoven's 9th. What came before was classic, but that final symphony was a triumph so complete that it can't possibly be forgotten. Okay, we're talking TV sci-fi here, and that's trivial in the grand scheme of things, but you know what I mean. I will say nothing of the final...

I remember that one, haha! The other great cat avatars were the cat wearing a lime like a helmet and that Kardashian cat sneering at the vegetables.

All this Ultima IV talk really takes me back. I had that on an Atari 800XL. I remember staying up late, drinking coke and eating chips, and wandering around that amazing map, talking to townsfolk, mixing reagents and such. I had that Atari running on two screens at once. One was a black and...

See the button I circled in red in the top post? You have to click the three-dot button right above it that's next to the toolbar's color easel. It will open up extra buttons, one of which is the spoiler button. It looks like a Zorro mask. You type a line like this . . . Highlight it . . ...

I like this spoiler effect.

It's been a few years since I've read that story. I had to read it again just to remember it all. New York City, 1998 A.D., was a paradise for the sightseer more than ever in its history. Right, it's sci-fi. haha! The structure of this one is odd. I don't think the kid is the MC. I know the...

We have many stories this month, the most I've ever seen a short story contest. It's a battle for street cred. For those new to the board, on the 15th a contest voting poll will open in a separate thread, and you can choose there which story is your favorite. Because we have so many stories, it...

Those are great. Every story features a samovar, it seems. Every time one is mentioned . . .

Politics. :poop: Or . . . authorial intrusion in particular, which often turns political. You have to switch that part of your brain off and commit yourself fully to the story. You're no longer "out there" living in today; you're within the story world. Now if you want to include a political...

The "iceberg theory" was mainly about subtext, yes? You see (read) what is visible on the page, while the main story is only implied and hiding under the surface. I remember reading Hemingway in high school and being deeply annoyed by that, haha. It's like a metaphor that instead of existing in...