14 Responses to The Stand In

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   _soldierboy_ on July 21, 2010 at 9:37 pm

   Your back. Missed you.

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   Jeff on July 21, 2010 at 11:02 pm

   That was exactly what I needed this morning.Words that lead me by the hand,take me away from this world of cars and phones ,of lights and train wrecks.

   thank-you.

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   City Different on July 22, 2010 at 2:01 am

   So well crafted; so true to the heart’s sense of absence, longing, desperation, frustration; so heartbreakingly sad.

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   Penny Goring on July 22, 2010 at 9:06 am

   Wow, that’s good, very real dissection of desperation. Her pragmatic attempt to trick reality. So cool: ‘usefully erect cock.’ Enjoyed the observations behind women receiving compliments & bargaining with attraction,his & hers.

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   W on July 22, 2010 at 6:11 pm

   So aching

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   Master on July 22, 2010 at 6:12 pm

   poignant. you are, as always, amazing.

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   janeway on July 22, 2010 at 6:37 pm

   I think you do emotional self-torture and psychic pain better than anyone.

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     Remittance Girl on July 22, 2010 at 11:40 pm

     I’ll remember to put that on my headstone. Hehe

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   oatmeal girl on July 22, 2010 at 7:37 pm

   I cried.

   Even though I still get to suck his cock every week, I cried.

   I started thinking of – no, I FELT the pain of losing him, and of how completely impossible it would be to find even a vague approximation of him, and I cried into my bagel.

   And then I saw all the things you do that make you such a good writer, and realized how much I have to learn.

   Thank you on all counts.

   o.g.

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9. 

   Ladyj on July 24, 2010 at 10:57 am

   Just visiting. I love your prose. You’re so succinct.

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    E_Woman on July 26, 2010 at 2:47 am

    Nobody can be “him” but him alone… Again, you paint stark loneliness and loss with great skill and feeling. Thank you for always putting into words what I feel but cannot express.. sorry for fangirling so hard

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    elsie on August 30, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    Very nice. As always very well-written. An excellent story.

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    ashes on September 8, 2010 at 6:46 am

    The pain in that one is wrenching. It hurt to place yourself where she is & know that no matter how superficially alike they are there will be all those major details that are just wrong.

    Once again a fantastic write

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    audrey on November 25, 2010 at 2:26 am

    I love the way you set up your characters.

    “Someone had trained him well, she thought.”

    That killed me.

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