Comments on: THE PERFECT COUPLE • by Christopher Kastensmidt

By: December’s Table of Contents | Every Day Fiction

December’s Table of Contents | Every Day Fiction — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:17:09 +0000

[...] The Perfect Couple [...]

By: sylvia

sylvia — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:39:03 +0000

Too sparse for me, not enough character for prose and not enough emotion for poetry. I appreciate the value in experimentation, I just didn’t enjoy reading the result.

By: Oonah V Joslin

Oonah V Joslin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:51:53 +0000

Some hated. Others loved. I admired.

By: Jim Cobb

Jim Cobb — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:50:32 +0000

As poetry, this works because it is a cliched story. The narrator is telling us what happened, as if it happens all the time. The phrasing is spare because no other detail is needed. You’ve heard the story before – many times. You supply your own details. Subject/verb – BAM! There you go. . .