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"I have to admit that I had to warm up to Celine’s POV and to the audiobook narrator for her part, but now it’s become pretty compelling. A few blanks are getting filled."
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"“The Blessing Of The Waters” by Nick Malaya’s was meh. What sounded like a good idea ended up falling short, and in a muddy ending.
In general, I’m finding that these stories have trouble sticking the landing. The short story format isn’t for everyone, it seems. Not as simple as it looks!" — Nov 20, 2025 10:50AM
"“The Blessing Of The Waters” by Nick Malaya’s was meh. What sounded like a good idea ended up falling short, and in a muddy ending.
In general, I’m finding that these stories have trouble sticking the landing. The short story format isn’t for everyone, it seems. Not as simple as it looks!" — Nov 20, 2025 10:50AM
“It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.”
― Lethal White
― Lethal White
“The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out this queer tragedy as they write it for me - just one more tormented, half-in-the closet gay character whose dark descent can serve as a cautionary tale AND move tickets. But that's certainly not the only queer genre convention out there, no by a long shot. And while tragedies are important stories to tell, our appetite can be satiated with more than just suffering. If the story is good, it will find an audience. Whether it's a tragedy or a triumph doesn't matter.”
― Bury Your Gays
― Bury Your Gays
“It was four in the morning, the hopeless hour when shivering insomniacs inhabit a world of hollow shadow, and existence seems frail and strange.”
― Lethal White
― Lethal White
“The feel of her was both new and familiar, as though he had held her a long time ago, as though he had missed it without knowing it for years.”
― Lethal White
― Lethal White
“Neither of them could tell who had made the first move, or whether they acted in unison. They were holding each other tightly before they knew what happened, Robin's chin on Strike's shoulder, his face in her hair. He smelled of sweat, beer and surgical spirits, she, of roses and the faint perfume that he had missed when she was no longer in the office. The feel of her was both new and familiar, as though he had held her a long time ago, as though he had missed it without knowing it for year. Through the closed door upstairs the band playing on:
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine ...”
― Lethal White
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine ...”
― Lethal White
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