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Ratsy – An Inn known as the Ends of the Earth is rather fitting for the theme, and it is something that has a recurring attraction, but what makes this tale interesting and turns the idea on it's head is what happens when the door is opened. It makes you wonder why something would be given such a name and now we know the answer. The last line is just sublime.
DEO – There is a well caught sense of wonder in this story, that works really well. In some way it leads you down the garden path, making the reader think of lost cities like Atlantis, but in fact there is more to it than that, a nice twist turning fantasy into science fiction. The sunken city is New York and you have to wonder what brought our Earth to it's end.
Reiver33 – I story that tells you exactly what it is in the opening line is a brave and imaginative one, something that should have the strength to carry you through to the end, and this one does that every well (and there is a guest appearance by TJ). Somehow it manages to convey an empty loneliness, the sense of all that has gone, and presents a disjointed wisdom cloaked in foolish words.
Bowler1 – Maybe this is one of the most important lessons that can be leaned. If you are going to become as warlike as those that victimised you, how far are you going to be willing to go in order to extract revenge? Where you lose all that you are sympathy from others is going to be a given, but if you turn on those sympathisers in order to gain reveneg and learn how to fight, you can lose sight of that which you seek, and the cost might be more than you are willing to pay. But that is something you learn too late.
Luiglin – A love story, just how far will love carry a man? Across a world? From the future to the past? Perhaps. But for me the strongest part of this story was the true act of love, the fcat that a single man would do anything to ensure the woman he loved had a life better than she might have known, whether he benefited from his act or not. Just her. Now that's love!
DEO – There is a well caught sense of wonder in this story, that works really well. In some way it leads you down the garden path, making the reader think of lost cities like Atlantis, but in fact there is more to it than that, a nice twist turning fantasy into science fiction. The sunken city is New York and you have to wonder what brought our Earth to it's end.
Reiver33 – I story that tells you exactly what it is in the opening line is a brave and imaginative one, something that should have the strength to carry you through to the end, and this one does that every well (and there is a guest appearance by TJ). Somehow it manages to convey an empty loneliness, the sense of all that has gone, and presents a disjointed wisdom cloaked in foolish words.
Bowler1 – Maybe this is one of the most important lessons that can be leaned. If you are going to become as warlike as those that victimised you, how far are you going to be willing to go in order to extract revenge? Where you lose all that you are sympathy from others is going to be a given, but if you turn on those sympathisers in order to gain reveneg and learn how to fight, you can lose sight of that which you seek, and the cost might be more than you are willing to pay. But that is something you learn too late.
Luiglin – A love story, just how far will love carry a man? Across a world? From the future to the past? Perhaps. But for me the strongest part of this story was the true act of love, the fcat that a single man would do anything to ensure the woman he loved had a life better than she might have known, whether he benefited from his act or not. Just her. Now that's love!
