Peace Returns Reviews

This was fascinating, this story. I just love it. You may not care for the short story as much as the novel, as a genre, but I must say that you really do it justice. Something about the subjects you pick and how you treat them gives your short stories a barer and more conspicuous intensity than I find in your longer works, where the same elements are present but present for such duration that they become less noticeable. I don't know if that makes any sense.

I've read the other comments, and I just wanted to add, that I didn't take this as moralizing on the subject of drugs; for me, it did read as descriptive, rather than proscriptive; though, certainly her particular experience with drugs was not a pleasant or good one, so I know where others were coming from.

Longden
(alt.fiction.original)

This is one gigantic cheat, really. Strict reversal, cinematic rewind as it were, makes no sense e.g. people would be talking backwards. But you pull it off extraordinarily well; with barely a hiccough (Is it ‘Hello’ or ‘Goodbye’). It does seem peculiarly appropriate for the subject matter. I think that may be because one is thinking about the crucial issue, the beginning of dissolution, the top of the slippery slope, at the right time i.e. at the end of the story. The natural or chronological order would be a very predictable story. It was neat, incidentally, that you only revealed the death near the end of the story -- no need for strict logic, or rather illogic, after all. It does or would make a great ‘message’ piece. I’m not sure if that was the intention exactly. If so there is the question of course whether people agree with the message (pace Huw). A fun idea and a deadly serious subject.

SelenaKittyn
(Literotica)

Peace Returns earned a lovely green “E”, so I had to check it out. A dark look into the darker world of addiction lived entirely backwards. This story is strangely disembodied, although it’s appropriate for the theme. I didn’t necessarily enjoy it, but it’s not one of those stories you read to enjoy. Not light summer reading.

Anonymous
(Literotica)

I hated it-in a backwards kind of way

It took me a few paragraphs (ok, more than I’d like to admit) but this was a very original way to explore a life spiralling out of control.

Very consistent and well done.

Anonymous in nedewS
(Literotica)

!taerG

.levels many so on backwards was that, Wow.

Anonymous
(Literotica)

Great Writing

This is great writing, and one of the most original pieces I've read.

Anonymous
(Literotica)

GREAT STORY

What a powerful story. Another take on the downward spiral. This should be required reading for everyone who has ever taken that first step.