Comments on: Echoes Of Unspoken Words http://elephantwords.co.uk/2009/12/02/echoes-of-unspoken-words/ One Image, Six Writers, Daily Words. The site about Interpretation, Inspiration and Improvisation. Thu, 24 May 2012 07:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou http://elephantwords.co.uk/2009/12/02/echoes-of-unspoken-words/#comment-21580 Nicolas Papaconstantinou Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:18:19 +0000 http://elephantwords.co.uk/?p=3135#comment-21580 You really creep me out sometimes, Andrew. And I mean that as a compliment. You really creep me out sometimes, Andrew. And I mean that as a compliment.

]]> By: Rivka Jacobs http://elephantwords.co.uk/2009/12/02/echoes-of-unspoken-words/#comment-20758 Rivka Jacobs Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:56:54 +0000 http://elephantwords.co.uk/?p=3135#comment-20758 This is a perfect, polished little gem of a story. Really chilling and horrific with nothing wasted. Every word counts. The placement of each sentence, the order in which information is revealed, are expertly chosen. How you do this, build up such a sense of character and tension in such few words, is beyond me. The last line is like a punch in the gut, as the reader is wrenched from some passive observational vantage to a position of immediate active participation; the reader becomes the victim, who learns in the last line what is really going on at the same time they learn it's knowledge gained too late! (And hey, my review is longer than the story.) :) This is a perfect, polished little gem of a story. Really chilling and horrific with nothing wasted. Every word counts. The placement of each sentence, the order in which information is revealed, are expertly chosen.

How you do this, build up such a sense of character and tension in such few words, is beyond me.

The last line is like a punch in the gut, as the reader is wrenched from some passive observational vantage to a position of immediate active participation; the reader becomes the victim, who learns in the last line what is really going on at the same time they learn it’s knowledge gained too late!

(And hey, my review is longer than the story.) :)

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