Comments on: Tail as old as time… http://www.52stories.net/issue-109/tail-as-old-as-time/ Every picture tells a story. What's yours? Mon, 03 May 2010 08:03:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tom http://www.52stories.net/issue-109/tail-as-old-as-time/comment-page-1/#comment-211 tom Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:15:35 +0000 http://www.52stories.net/issue-109/tail-as-old-as-time/#comment-211 Cool story and imaginative use of the photo to transport the reader through time. I was wondering how someone would spin this photo into Sci-Fi, and am glad to see it done well. Cool story and imaginative use of the photo to transport the reader through time. I was wondering how someone would spin this photo into Sci-Fi, and am glad to see it done well.

]]> By: DanielleM http://www.52stories.net/issue-109/tail-as-old-as-time/comment-page-1/#comment-170 DanielleM Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:43:43 +0000 http://www.52stories.net/issue-109/tail-as-old-as-time/#comment-170 This was definitely an interesting piece to go with the image -- it brought to mind Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I liked all the details you provided for each of the timeframes, so that the reader really gets the sense of each era. The one thing that I might have liked to see different would be for each vignette to have had the same narrator's voice, as it was a little jarring to have the perspective switch in each one. But overall I really enjoyed each story! This was definitely an interesting piece to go with the image — it brought to mind Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I liked all the details you provided for each of the timeframes, so that the reader really gets the sense of each era. The one thing that I might have liked to see different would be for each vignette to have had the same narrator’s voice, as it was a little jarring to have the perspective switch in each one. But overall I really enjoyed each story!

]]> By: James Warrenfeltz http://www.52stories.net/issue-109/tail-as-old-as-time/comment-page-1/#comment-154 James Warrenfeltz Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:15:08 +0000 http://www.52stories.net/issue-109/tail-as-old-as-time/#comment-154 What a fun idea for the picture- or a fun set of ideas! Your word choice for your characters really set the time and place well, it increased the buy-in dramatically on the past stories. In the same vein, in the future stories I would have liked to have seen future dialog that read as differently as the 1905 and 1955 dialog. For a good example of what I'm thinking about, viddy A Clockwork Orange, O my brothers. A complaint about your title for the story - now I've got the song stuck in my head. What a fun idea for the picture- or a fun set of ideas!

Your word choice for your characters really set the time and place well, it increased the buy-in dramatically on the past stories. In the same vein, in the future stories I would have liked to have seen future dialog that read as differently as the 1905 and 1955 dialog. For a good example of what I’m thinking about, viddy A Clockwork Orange, O my brothers.

A complaint about your title for the story – now I’ve got the song stuck in my head.

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