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06-09-2006, 01:03 AM
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Effects of Ecstasy (Short and somewhat graphic but a must read)
Spinning in a dizzying haze of mortification, the sun sets. Dante spelled his name out in exhaled smoke. The twilight shone through the letters into the effects of the X he was tripping off of. Jesters stood surronding him with five knives and a shotgun. He stared down the barrel twisting with it's inner cavities. A spark hit a bullet and it traveled spinning slowly through the barrel. It launched out of the barrel and Dante watched amazed as the heat from the bullet slowly ate through his t-shirt cloth and then through his flesh, leaving a gaping hole, still burning, in his stomach. The Jesters smiled a yellow grin and picked Dante up and laid him down on a motel bed. The blood still smelled fresh from the unwilling deflowering of a 9 year old girl, days past. They twirled his hair in their knives and then put a knife slowly in each and every single finger and toe, nailing him to the bed. A torn and bloody figure came from across the room. An angel badly beaten, bleeding from several head wounds, its wings ripped out. The angel placed a hand above Dante's face, blood running down the forearm, palm, then the fingers, to drip onto his lips. A sacrifice, the angel mouthed painfully. Lips shown shut, ripped open to mutter two single words. A Jester came up behind the Angel and slit the angel's throat, a deep gutteral sound of choking on blood and the blood mixing with stomach acid as the angel tried to vomit from the pain.
A hand ran up the lining of Dante's crotch. He looked down and a 9 year old with lacerations on every inch of her body, pulled out his member and took it into her mouth. He put his head back in extasy, but the fantasy was lived to early, teeth bit down and the member was dismembered. He looked at the girl, wide eyed in pain and saw her open her mouth, smiling and watching the blood dribble through her teeth. Then she spit out his dismembered member onto the floor, a splatter like eggs hitting a hot pan. She fell back into the shadows and knight came.
Angry and absorbed with self-pity the knight unsheathed the sword of retaliation. Viewed with such horror and tramatic stress disorder, he smirked, teeth that ran into sharp peaks like ice sickles. A painful line was traced from the neck to the pelvic bone as the sword parted the sea of Dante's flesh. The Knight's body was molded with blackened burnt armor, a fleshy metal finger peeling the skin back. Dante screamed his liver was ripped to shreds inside himself. A giant dog jumped on the bed, the sheets rippling like the effect of ice shattering in the heat. The dog buried its muzzle into the bleeding wounds of Dante and ate his lunch, his dog bowl howling in pain as its interior was removed into the gullet of an animal. The Knight growled and hissed at the dog, digging his fingers into the dog's throat and throwing it across the room by its trachea. He watched the blood stain on the wall as the dog pounded into it. He turned back and faced Dante, relieving the anxiety of his gushing sea of self-satisfaction on Dante's pale, deceased face. The creatures of Dante's Knightmare faded as the X hit an ultimate feeling of guilt and loss of life. The visions made real through the brain. Cut open down the center he died as the Knight's release fell to his lips and cheek, leaving a sticky mess of self-gratification.
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06-09-2006, 02:02 AM
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heh well I want to say watch out calling your own work "A must read" don't want to seem to full of yourself.
I understand from the title your showing what ecstasy is like but I've got to say, reading something that disorganized, hectic, with constant change is annoying, even if thats what its like being on ecstasy. I don't really like that it just seems so..confusing. But I understand, ecstasy...I think though, If you wrote it with more...feeling instead of all vision it may sound better.
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I dunno...It could use a work over, make it sound cooler. If you spun it with better descriptions it might show the effects of Ecstacy better. Make the reader feel like they're taking Ecstacy, not that they're hearing someones story of when they took ecstacy...
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06-09-2006, 02:05 AM
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Try not to start every sentence with 'The', 'He' or 'A'. The repetitiveness looks mechanical and bored me. You need to make the story flow otherwise the reader will stop short.
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06-09-2006, 02:08 AM
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Yikes. What on earth? I've taken ecstasy when I was younger (don't do drugs!), and nothing was like this.
This, though, was a very descriptive, gory, and quite gruesome event. Good description though. I'm not really sure the point you were trying to get across. Sounds like a horrible acid trip.
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06-09-2006, 02:19 AM
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Most things have already been said, but I'll just echo the above posters by saying:
a) Don't label your stuff a "must read" ... it doesn't encourage people to read your stuff, and just makes you look arrogant.
b) This has a lot of spelling / grammar mistakes... I'd give it a read through and some editing, or at least a spell check.
c) The plot jumps around a lot, and your sentences are real choppy. You need to have *some* flow (I realize that maybe you want to give a real choppy feeling to this, for effect, but as it is, the choppiness detracts from what you're trying to say. If you want the story to be choppy, you need to do it in a way that isn't, well, so hard to read.) from event to event -- as it is, your plot is basically incomprehensible. I didn't find it very readable, at least.
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06-09-2006, 02:31 AM
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a) I didn't mean to say "a must read" I was typing quickly. I apologize for making myself seem full of my work.
b) All the spelling/grammar mistakes are on purpose, e.g. Knightmare means a nightmare and also a character in "protagonists" reality.
c) I didn't see how it was choppy. Everyone else who has read this story (on different forums) can see both meanings to this story and understand it perfectly.
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06-09-2006, 03:52 AM
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Originally Posted by JackSpade
Spinning in a dizzying haze of mortification, the sun sets. Dante spelled his name out [consider changing to 'out his name'] in exhaled smoke. The twilight shone through the letters into the effects of the X he was tripping off of. Jesters stood surronding ['surrounding'] him with five knives and a shotgun. He stared down the barrel twisting with it's [its ... no contraction. it's = it is] inner cavities. A spark hit a bullet and it traveled spinning slowly through the barrel. It launched out of the barrel and Dante watched amazed as the heat from the bullet slowly ate through his t-shirt cloth and then through his flesh, leaving a gaping hole, still burning, in his stomach. The Jesters smiled a yellow grin and picked Dante up and laid him down on a motel bed. The blood still smelled fresh from the unwilling deflowering of a 9 year old girl, days past. They twirled his hair in their knives and then put a knife slowly in each and every single finger and toe, nailing him to the bed. A torn and bloody figure came from across the room. An angel badly beaten, bleeding from several head wounds, its wings ripped out. The angel placed a hand above Dante's face, blood running down the forearm, palm, then the fingers, to drip onto his lips. A sacrifice, the angel mouthed painfully. Lips shown ['sewn'?] shut, ripped open to mutter two single words. A Jester came up behind the Angel and slit the angel's [at first it was capitalized, now it isn't?] throat, a deep gutteral ['guttural'] sound of choking on blood and the blood mixing with stomach acid as the angel tried to vomit from the pain.
A hand ran up the lining of Dante's crotch. He looked down and a 9 year old with lacerations on every inch of her body, [i'd take out this comma] pulled out his member [and then drop one in here] and took it into her mouth. He put his head back in extasy ['ecstasy'], but the fantasy was lived to ['too'] early, teeth bit down and the member was dismembered [the member was dismembered? lol, consider using a different word here. i know what you mean, but it still sounds awkward]. He looked at the girl, wide eyed in pain and saw her open her mouth, smiling and watching the blood dribble through her teeth. Then she spit out his dismembered member onto the floor, a splatter like eggs hitting a hot pan. She fell back into the shadows and knight came.
Angry and absorbed with self-pity the knight unsheathed the sword of retaliation. Viewed with such horror and tramatic [should be 'traumatic'] stress disorder [traumatic stress disorder, eh? do you mean post-traumatic stress disorder? probably not, since he is currently stressed rather than post-stressed. so basically, while clever, you're inventing a term here -- i'd consider using something else.], he smirked, teeth that ran into sharp peaks like ice sickles [i guess you're trying to be clever with this one too? fine, whatever -- these purposeful typos, in my opinion, don't work]. A painful line was traced from the [consider changing to 'his' ... at the moment it is slightly unclear who you are referring to until later in the sentence] neck to the pelvic bone as the sword parted the sea of Dante's flesh. The Knight's body was molded with blackened burnt armor, a fleshy metal finger peeling the skin back. Dante screamed his liver [screamed his liver? oh my! 'screamed as', maybe?] was ripped to shreds inside himself. A giant dog jumped on the bed, the sheets rippling like the effect of ice shattering in the heat. The dog buried its muzzle into the bleeding wounds of Dante and ate his lunch, his dog bowl howling in pain as its interior was removed into the gullet of an animal. The Knight growled and hissed at the dog, digging his fingers into the dog's throat and throwing it across the room by its trachea. He watched the blood stain on the wall as the dog pounded into it. He turned back and faced Dante, relieving the anxiety of his gushing sea of self-satisfaction ['gushing sea of self satisfaction'? uhh. sorry, doesn't work for me. it's like you're trying to be real specific here, and use some good word play, but in this instance, what exactly is a gushing sea of self satisfaction? what is, for that matter, a gushing sea at all? how can a sea gush? how can you have a sea of an intangible emotion? i can see this being a bit better if 'gushing' became 'rising', however i still don't think that it works.] on Dante's pale, deceased face. The creatures of Dante's Knightmare faded as the X hit an ultimate feeling of guilt ['ultimate feeling of guilt' doesn't really work. it's like saying that a character is 'the most guilty they've ever been' or that 'bob was the angriest person in the entire universe' -- these kinds of bold statements don't really get you anywhere, since they don't evoke anything specific, do they? what exactly would the ultimate feeling of guilt feel like? you can't expect your reader to stop and think of the term and then conjure up their own feelings to go along with it. you have to provide them the sensations and feelings which you want the writing to evoke yourself.] and loss of life. The visions made real through the brain. Cut open down the center he died as the Knight's release fell to his lips and cheek, leaving a sticky mess of self-gratification.
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Well, these are my thoughts. Take 'em or leave 'em, it's up to you.
I still think your plot jumps around too much at this point, and along with some awkward word usage, it makes things harder for the reader than it should be. It's kind of like this happens, then this happens, then this happens, then we're done.
I'd echo KyleColorado's sentiments. What point were you trying to get across? What was your intent in writing this? Just to vent? Or was there some deeper concern, here? At the moment, I don't really see what it would be ...
Last edited by mwd : 06-09-2006 at 03:55 AM.
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06-09-2006, 12:00 PM
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I personally like it, and I don't find it that choppy, or at last that hard to get through. I like the style and the subject.
The only criticism I would have is I sometimes find it maybe a little too gory; it's not that it's shocking, but it's maybe sometimes too crude too often, so much that it sort of takes away the very horrific character of the scene. Maybe you could play on contrast and alternate gory, awesome parts with more quiet, contemplative or neutral ones?
Just my two cents 
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06-09-2006, 03:30 PM
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a) I didn't mean to say "a must read" I was typing quickly. I apologize for making myself seem full of my work.
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Yeah. When I type fast I come off as really full of myself. But sorry I've really got to go IM THE GREATEST EVER.
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