14 Responses to The Parade

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   Master on March 10, 2010 at 7:16 pm

   You astound me each time I read your work.

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   Audrey on March 10, 2010 at 8:33 pm

   How tender and beautiful… and sorrowful.

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   thextraman on March 11, 2010 at 5:28 am

   What an extraordinarily beautiful story, despite the subject matter. How poignant it is that the fisherman takes responsibility for the city war, that was not his war, and lays the girl to her rest. She has become his daughter and he buries her as family, the way he buried his father.

   This is a wonderful piece of writing that seems to vibrate with an echo of The Old Man and the Sea; Hemingway would have been proud to have written it. I feel privileged to have read it.

   Peter

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     Remittance Girl on March 11, 2010 at 7:33 am

     LOL!!! Um, I doubt Hemmingway would have approved at all. He wouldn’t identify with this kind of a male character. Not ‘take charge’ enough. Grin. Thanks for your lovely comment.

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       thextraman on March 11, 2010 at 4:49 pm

       The character may not be archetypically Hemingway but it was really the writing that I was referring to. You can’t side-step a compliment as easily as that; particularly when it’s laser-guided! Grin

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       Ricc Berra on March 12, 2010 at 11:56 am

       I think the Old Man would be proud but a little irked. (You being a girl and a remittance girl, at that

       At {the} mouth of the river …

       Lovely work,

       r

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   steveh11 on March 12, 2010 at 5:21 pm

   Tears in my eyes.

   Thank you, RG. Wonderful story.

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   Laurel on March 12, 2010 at 9:11 pm

   You’re so skilled in juxtaposing the horrifying and the tender. Interesting to see how you use it in a non erotic context. Thanks.

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   Ken on March 14, 2010 at 3:55 pm

   Again I stand in Awe. Your stories are generally so dark, yet even in the darkness there is a light. No wonder you inspire so many……

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   Christy on March 15, 2010 at 7:14 am

   Extraordinarily beautiful

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   Nell Gwyn on March 15, 2010 at 11:19 pm

   I cried.

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     Remittance Girl on March 15, 2010 at 11:28 pm

     I cried when I saw the documentary. In fact, I couldn’t stop crying for about an hour. Then I wrote the story.

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   Gedichte on May 20, 2010 at 4:40 pm

   Hello from Germany! May i quote a post a translated part of your blog with a link to you? I’ve tried to contact you for the topic Remittance Girl : Erotic Fiction, Stories and Series » Blog Archive » The Parade, but i got no answer, please reply when you have a moment, thanks, Gedichte

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     Remittance Girl on May 20, 2010 at 6:30 pm

     Absolutely. Please feel free. Sorry for the silence.

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