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How My Beautiful Garden Grows

Diary Fiction-contest entry

16 total reviews 
Comment from LIJ Red
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Do you suppose Omar Mateem was really a wallflower wannabe drag
queen who went ballistic when his drop-dead entrance didn't work?
Poor, dear baby. After that ramble, let me say this is an excellent bit
of diary style fiction...

 Comment Written 15-Jun-2016


reply by the author on 15-Jun-2016
    Yeah. Decided to tone it down a bit. Glad you liked this. I like this format quite a bit. Looking forward to Sunday. Thanks, mikey
Comment from BOO ghost
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Nice take on this diary epic. Now i see what you do in your spare time besides writing. haha! Who will be 74? That damn desert is scorching hot! Look above? You can find Mikey's house by the buzzards. This looks not to be no ordinary bed of roses. Hey -- lot of fertilizer below. Compost. Poor Brenda Wilson. Maybe she likes sunflowers and a dozen roses? Now, how did he hack her up? With a shovel. An axe? A sling blade like in the movie all time thriller Slingblade? No Hurst or ambulance is needed in this special case. Said Billy Bb Thorton. Took her head clean off!

 Comment Written 15-Jun-2016


reply by the author on 15-Jun-2016
    Love Sling Blade, umm hmm. I think I actually got a little chill factor in this for a change. HAHAHA! Thanks a bunch. mikey
reply by BOO ghost on 15-Jun-2016
    You are killer -- good Lion King. Review your poem tomorrow. Taps for BOO. dEAD TIRED.
reply by BOO ghost on 15-Jun-2016
    uMM --Humm... "Please send an ambulance and a Hurst. hUMM -- uMM, hUMM, I love french fried potatoes.
Comment from giraffmang
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Hi Mikey,

Nice interpretation here for the competition. Probably the best one I've read. The diary extracts work will. The writing is very matter of fact and chilling.

Personally I think "Kill, Write, Garden." Would make an excellent title or tag line on its own!

All the best
G

 Comment Written 15-Jun-2016


reply by the author on 15-Jun-2016
    Hmmmm. Yeah, I kind of like that. LOL
    I may change it after the contest. I'd feel guilty if it won and I'd changed it. HA! I finally got some chills in something. YAY! Okay, back to syrupy romance. mikey
Comment from mfowler
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A delightfully revealing take on the serial killer here, Michael. Kill, write, and garden. Your diaries show all hobbies at once. You kill them. Write about your exploits, then bury them in the garden. Linda Wilson with the sliding fun bags found you a bit much and now fertilises your worm farm. The sunflowers were a nice touch, yes. Good to see some caring. The kid, wel that stupid bitch left loose ends. Little wonder she died. Luckily an adventurous under age with a great ass came along to keep you busy. With 73 down and many more to come, your diarist is a certified psychopath. I think this creative little effort may just fit the bill with this prompt. Best of luck.

 Comment Written 15-Jun-2016


reply by the author on 15-Jun-2016
    Wow. Great to hear, Mark. Sounds like I actually wrote something moderately chilling. Well, we'll see how it goes. Now, back to hopeless romance. Sigh.... mikey
Comment from Spitfire
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The adult games are about to get under way --this is the line that scared the you-know-what out of me. The narrator is definitely a psychopath. He seems to have a grievance against the people he's killed so far.

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 Comment Written 15-Jun-2016


reply by the author on 15-Jun-2016
    Yeah? Cool, I didn't think I had any fear factor in me. LOL
    Thanks so much. I'll be walking in the mist madly in love soon I expect. Just a little side trip here. mikey
Comment from Phyllis Stewart
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Ouch! This is hard to read... hard to think about. But it happens. There are such creeps in the world, those who have not grown up with love and security end up with no empathy, no morality. I blame the parents who made the monster what he is. Tragic story, but very well done. You got the emotional reaction it deserves!

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 Comment Written 15-Jun-2016


reply by the author on 15-Jun-2016
    Oh. Great. :))
    I need to get back to hopeless romantic I think. But this has been a fun little fork in the road. Hahaha. mikey