Be Mine

Heartbreak has been described as a slow motion car crash set to Mozart. I’m happy Nationwide was on her side in this story. Harper’s fruitless search for love had a sense of urgency like feeling the need to run up a moving escalator. It created the tension of another disaster in the wing. Her foray into feng shui leading to a successful connection was ironically karmic.

I especially liked the ebb and flow treatment of relationships at the close. To call someone an asshole, then tell them you love them an hour later is a sign of true love. Or bipolar disorder. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.

I’m not generally a fan of Romance, but this author can lead me far afield.

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As I was flying back from Lubbock, I saw Jesus on the plane.

Or maybe it was Elvis; you know they kind of look the same. — Don Henley

Kinda Vanilla...but okay.

Got a little clumsy at the scene where he's asking if he's in the friend zone. I would have expected him to kiss her passionately while they were drinking and then she's speechless and he runs away and she has to run after him or goes to see him the next day.

It WASN’T Barry Monotone!!!

"... got on my laptop... " But the laptop was 'hopelessly broken' ! I know it is a minor comment but it still bothers me!

The main story though flowed very smoothly and I loved the way it worked out! The characters were well fleshed out and the pace was good.

But the ending was very rushed and incoherent! It looked forced and in many ways spoiled a well developing attachment to the story! I hope you work on it and ensure that the endings are a bit more fleshed out or at the very least, written at a good pace!

J. Jamie Dupane

You are a goddamn romance artist!

I know nothing about - but visiting with friends over the years I get the floating in dreamtime feel of trying to have a heart there.

I do know the poem - and I went down to get my copy of "The Ink Dark Moon" and was going to spend the time to find the poem, and found that someone I lent the book to had left a sheet of lower back exercises (!... and they in their 80's) at exactly that place... page 43, if you care, and facing Why Haven't I/thought of it before?/This body,/remembering yours,/is the keepsake you left.

A gift from a crazy, ex girlfriend... she was a poet (of course) and a printer, and showed me the virtue of poems pressed into paper and filled with ink, as verses words slid onto paper like sleight of hand...

We, of course, didn't make it, but I did get to take her to May Ball, which isn't in May...

The back story of the author(s) is sad... and the translation (Jane Hirschfield) is more of a rewriting than a translation (necessary when the source is so far from English), and the poems themselves are arranged in a bit of a journey, a bit of the travel of the seasons of things... if memory serves.

Strongly recommended

Green-something

and they do and tickle their fancies, TK U MLJ LV NV

Great story plus you had me laughing out loud with your humour mixed in there.

Some of the phrases were riotous 😂

This is the first story I’ve read of yours. I plan to read more of them.

Thank you for your love tale

I love a happy ending! (I met my wife on Valentine's Day.)

Isn't it funny that some of the sexiest stories gain their poignancy by also being funny. Funny how that happens in real life--if you're lucky.

I am allowed the company of a cute and clever girl, being a tad shy a liitle boy smile monopolizes my lips.

That smile never left once I began reading this quietly quirky story.

Sad to write, I have now completed your ''library'' of submissions.

Even sadder, I only found them on Saturday-tis Wednesday

evening now.

A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD has surpassed Dream Cloud's ''The Festival'' as the most re-read. Additionally, I studied and examined and contemplated RUSH...more than any other literary work in my lifetime.

You are a genuine genius and more importanly to me geniusly genuine.

Wishing you well in life and in your literary career

√&√

this cute Story is for sure written by a cute Girl. why? because half of the Story Plays inside her brain.:) she has so much doubts and second thoughts. 5 stars for this sweet Story with a happy ending.,

And it perfectly fits with relationships, too.

I see that you're sticking with realism, even in a Romance. And that's so very Virgo like. :-)

I obviously enjoyed this, as usual. A perfect modern Romance. Sunshine & Rain.

This was the perfect opening they both needed. I'm sure it's for the long haul. After all, didn't he throw away the crystals & didn't she allow the neon sign ? :-)

Understanding & adjustment.

The journey has begun, straight into the sunset.

5 Ruby Crystals, for a change.

Happy Loving..... & Writing .:-)

Thanks for sharing. Very entertaining.

Your dialog is wonderful, so natural. I thought you captured Harper's insecurity quite well. You also got relationships pretty right, you have to accept that you won't get it all, and accept that you both will change, an must consciously change together.

Great!.