Comments | halfshellvenus: Voting Round #3

halfshellvenus

Voting Round #3

Mar 18, 2019 10:21

Voting ends tonight for this 2-day story window on LJ Idol. The list of stories and voting instructions is here. Only 13, so please read and vote for your favorites!

We had a beautiful spring weekend, with temperatures near 70o here. That's common for March, but we went back into winter in earnest for January and February, and we keep having rain ( Read more... )

nature is evil, ow!, cycling, life fail, a universe of _no_

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passing_through March 20 2019, 01:36:32 UTC

I'm so swamped with mom-stuff that I didn't get to vote. I lost track of time and missed the deadline :(

I'm also behind on your stories but I did read #2 and it was terrific! I thought I had left a comment but apparently, it didn't stick. I absolutely loved that you wrote horror and it was so intense and creepy and sad and the ending was perfect. I want to know where she went and what happens to her if indeed anything does happen. Did she just cease to exist? I think that's the scariest part, not knowing where they go.

I completely forgot to add that I too need to prune my crepe myrtles. I haven't had the energy to do so yet. It's going to require hauling out the 8' ladder and setting it up in the front yard and that's probably something I should do on the weekend when other people besides my mom are around. She would be of almost no help if I fell :D

halfshellvenus March 20 2019, 07:02:21 UTC

I'm so glad you got a chance to read that second story! I don't write horror very often, but that prompt really seemed to call for it. I was pleased with how it turned out, though I wrested with it almost all the way through the writing period. :O

Sounds like your crepe myrtles are in tree form, then? We've mostly left ours alone for years, though that let the all-white trees get ginormous. Some of the ones in colors also seem to be susceptible to areas of mossiness and then drying up, along certain limbs. Not good. Plus, they keep sending up suckers from the base of the tree, which is incredibly annoying!

We also have some bushes, where you have to prune them back because most of the newly-grown spikes die in the winter.

Well, be careful of my crepe-myrtle pitfall: anything I prune overhead will shed bark bits that get into my eyes. And my right eye still hurts quite a bit from getting hit with that wood chunk on Sunday. Goggles! I recommend goggles now. :O