12-09-2013, 04:08 PM 
	
	
	
		I have a hard time line by lining this as it really reads like the opening paragraph of a novel rather than it does strict prose (is there such a thing?).
So, since that's how it makes me feel I'm going to approach it from that angle. Shoot me later.
Thanks for the share.
	
	
	
So, since that's how it makes me feel I'm going to approach it from that angle. Shoot me later.
(12-09-2013, 12:42 PM)Speaktaboo Wrote: She could pull a smile out of the mouth of hell. -- Great opening lineAll in all, I want to hear more about what's going on here, sine it doesn't seem like allegory or metaphor - I want narrative.
I had never seen dead sunflowers printed on a dress. -- Beginning this line with "I had..." disrupts the flow. Consider rephrasing a bit, perchance "she had dead..."
I watched her, Skipping moss covered stones in a dry lake; -- This clause doesn't seem related to the next hence I'm going to have to take your semicolon and insist on a comma.
chasing butterflies around bodies unburied.
She was the last of them.
The last of us.
It had been eleven days since she'd eaten
A mug half filled with water on her last day she looked back on the wars. -- Feels like some commas are called for
I think she was 11 or 12.
11.
Infantries and investors.
Doctors, scientists, the churches.
The ones we dont see, the inbetween.
She was inbetween.
Now she was the only.
before she got too weak she would play and play.
She was never afraid.
Never cried.
She didnt even drink the water -- Beautiful last line. Put that apostrophe in though.
Thanks for the share.

 

 
