Mouser's (dresselm) Reviews

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Review of The Salon  

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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
I liked this piece. The slowly building of tension and the obsessive perception growing until it took over the character was well done. The final sentence is a great ending connecting her thoughts and the mundane world. Keep writing.
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Review of An Ode to Park Hill Apartments  

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Rated: E | (4.5)
A great piece. It does a great job evoking the common experience of most folk when they find a place that satisfies their needs with positive feelings. My wife and my first place was three small rooms and bath in the upstairs of a modest home but for us it then it was great.
The structure as well as content works as well.
Thanks for reminding me of that time and place.
Keep writing.
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Review of My Time Machine…  

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Rated: E | (5.0)
I this piece. The kind of reflection you express caught me and carried me through the same kind of experience. I lost my wife of 47 years in 20 to complications of COVID. Good and bad the thoughts carry me back as you've expressed so well.
Thank you for your view along that road.
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Review of This Broken Heart  

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Rated: E | (5.0)
I really enjoyed this piece. The structure and word choices are great. Sorrow can sometimes be overwhelming. I'm 72 and I've weathered a lot of sorrow. We must go on somehow and we do.
I know from personal experience that is does not disappear but becomes part of you. Those we've lost are always inside us as we go on.
Keep writing.
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Review of The ghost  

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Rated: E | (5.0)
I really like this piece. I have an attic like that although most of mine is in my head. It's even better since you were obviously responding to prompts. I believe we all have some of those things in our heads. For me such things are a dominant of what lead me to a lot what leads me to poetry.
Keep it up and keep writing.
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Review of Jots and Tittles and other Random Things  

for entry "More to Come
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
Wonderful poem. Rebuilding oneself after that kind of break-up is huge. Word choice and flow through the piece is great and tells the tale emotionally as well as moving the reader into what you were expressing. Keep your head up and keep following your muse and keep writing.
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Review of Jots and Tittles and other Random Things  

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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
Wonderful piece. The feeling of being overwhelmed by worrying about too many things at the same time really struck an emotional chord for me. I've medical issues and I feel I need to get my affairs in order, have cats who are over ten years old whose health concerns me, and run a household.