Things usually claw up not down. You might try sliding, rolling, slipping down for the tears.
When you say 'starved wolverine mangling a rabbit', it sounds more like the tears are acid and are disfiguring your face. You might want to rethink that.
I'm not sure a six year old would worry about the 'goodbye' but more of why and where thy left. (I've been abandoned and kidnapped so that is a valid point)
-It was the only reason I thought why they would leave me.- This is the conclusion. However you didn't tell us the event. You need to tell the reason or event, then put the conclusion.
If it was too dark in the room to see well, how could you see the map?
-She was perched on the edge of the couch with her back leaning forward - her back can't be leaning forward....did you mean- edge of the couch leaning forward, her back to me-
'as if he could see me' isn't the same as seeing you, so in the next paragraph when you say 'oops did I scare you'--you didn't say he got up and opened the door or anything.
Your whole next section has way too many sentences starting with 'I'. You have some mixed in the sentences and not all start at the beginning. In first person it's hard to not have a million 'I's isn't it? lol
--my parents took Joey, my little brother, and me to dinner--I can't tell if you are naming Joey, or if there is another little brother. What about 'My parents took my little brother joey, and me to dinner'? Does that work better?
The next part, about stacking skyscrapers, sounds a bit old for a seven year old. Just my opinion.
'cake cake cake--we went from dad to Joey, might want a dialogue tag there.
'holey grin' does she have teeth missing? I didn't know if that was it, or if it was a typo.
If your nickname sounds with a long 'i' then you might want to add an e 'spide' short for spider. spid has the I like in indian.
“She will be fun to devastate,” dad stared at him looking horrified.--this is actually two sentences. So instead of comma, put a period. and capitalize 'Dad'
That huge paragraph after 'contract' is too much telling. Make it more show like you did at the beginning. The whole first part is showing. good job on that. Put in the yells! Aren't the customers staring? No one comes to help the child?
imprisoning my hands, starting to laugh --I think 'started' would work better. Read it out loud and think about it.
he looked to me and offered --looked at me
I don't know any 6 year old that would say 'pissed me off' must have been raised very roughly, or is that your adult voice coming through?
--“I said, ‘ it is a pleasure to’- ah, you may not understand. To possess you means to own you,” His eyes flashed as he grinned his evil grin. I took that as a challenge. My leg flew out and a startled grunt was heard over the music. ‘Own me’ my ass.--It seems it switches from him to the last line to her voice. Again very adult voice. Might rethink that.
the distance would only get larger --only got larger, or farther
misjudge where the car was relative to me, --adult level language.
pain I had never had the opportunity --opportunities are good thing, getting run down by a car is not an opportunity. How about 'pain I had never felt before' or suffered before?
This needs a fairly major makeover, but you have some good stuff here. Your ending is definitely scary! Keep working on it. Like I said, good start, we all have to do edits.
Thanks for sharing.
love, LinnAnn
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