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Dear Andrej
Thank you very much for your lovely stories. They are really great. Some are sad in their own way but they still do show your, as a writer, hope for better future and hope for understaning and mutual love.
I have read, until this point, shelves 1 and 2, and as it appears, some other stories from other shelves. My favourite is "We are Presumed to be Enemies". I couldn't stop until I read the last words. The storyline was very exciting, the characters escaped always with only slightest luck, in one time, I though, that it would be real shame if they were to be lost. But that didn't happen and I sighed relieved when they did make to Switzerland after all! God bless the nuns... LOL
Do I have any critcism? Not really. Each story has its own line, follows its own pattern. I must admit that though you are the writer in every occasion, I do not feel as your style stays unchanged. While writing through the eyes of a youth, you find their distinct features and the other way around. No-one can really be always 100% content but you have managed, at least for me, to reach almost that. When I do compare your storytelling and your thinking with those that have been posted on Nifty, I must say that you're a flaming star among them. The only thing that I found even more positive, is, that you have tried some sci-fi stories as in "The Closureds' Order" that I also very much like as I do like these kinds of stories especially. So, please keep going!
My best regards to you and to Matt as well, of course.
Ahto
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Thursday, 4 May 2006 |
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Andrej,
So far I have read Chipi - A.D. 2574; The Closureds Order; Cosmolab; Counting to 10 (hypnosis); and The Free Commune of Silvana. What I can only say about all the works is that I absolutely love them and think that they are brillant. The way you have the gay male winning or coming out great in the end always make me smile. I especially like how in many of your stories you jump time and fill in the information in the end (like you did in the Closureds Order). Its just great.
If I was required to tell you something about them that I did not like, well it would have to be when you have a major character die. I don't like that, despite the fact that they are usually well-off, comfortable, well-loved, and old; I still don't like it. Other than that, sometimes I find that the sex scenes do not flow with the rest of the section, and that I can't always tell what is exactly happening in a particular scene. Besides those tiny things (which as you can probably guess will not cause me to stop reading) I find your writing style to be great and the stories wonderful.
It is stories such as this that I wish would be in the Gay section of a local book store. It has come to the point that I don't even look anymore in the physical store, knowing full well that there are probably a dozen great stories on the internet that I can read. Anyway, sorry to go off on a tangent like that.
Just so you know, I found your writings first on the Nifty archive. That is, in fact, where I first read the Closureds Order. I followed the link to your site where I immediately lost my head cause of all the great amounts of fiction that I can read.
So, in closing, you are a very good writer whose stories and places cause me to fall in love with them the moment I start reading it. The endings are wonderful but so is the journey.
A Happy Reader,
Carl
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