Comments on: Thank you daddy

By: Ani Smith

Ani Smith — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:31:17 +0000

Clarissa: Cheers, mate. I don’t mind admitting that I hope you’re right.

Ben: Thanks, Ben. I didn’t think of it that way, but now that you mention it, yes, the grownups are always up to something.

By: ben

ben — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:23:07 +0000

Sounds like what I thought everyone was up too when I was young, even though they probably weren’t. Wonderfully written! I’m both envious and inspired.

By: clarissa

clarissa — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:10:43 +0000

Disturbing in a good way. You seem to be good at that.

By: Ani Smith

Ani Smith — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:58:10 +0000

Persico: Thanks. I like thick. Like duvets or french toast slices.

Paul: Thanks, Paul. Sometimes I feel strange about characters, so I’m glad they lived for you.

Xtx: I couldn’t decide either, really, and I was embarrassed about it so I feel very warm that you liked it.

AUW: Actually, I waffled between the glass bottle and the small plastic bottle, so in the end I thought I’d leave it up to you to decide. But um, I wouldn’t read this shit aloud in front of anyone. No way, dude.

Jim: You’re absolutely right, Jim, as evidenced by Mr Unreliable’s 2 litre diet coke bottle.

Ani: Shut up, you suck.

Sevenperfumes: I am just happy that you weren’t utterly disgusted with me. ;)

Dick: Hello and welcome, Dick. We do love a bit of Arbus around here. Have you seen the movie Fur? I identified.

By: Dick

Dick — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:44:49 +0000

Like a Diana Arbus photograph, two parts grim dream, one part reality.

By: sevenperfumes

sevenperfumes — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:03:00 +0000

Eerie, powerful and visually perverse. Gives me cognitive dissonance.

By: Ani

Ani — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:30:41 +0000

Persico: Thank you, mommy.

Paul: Thank you, daddy.

Xtx: Thank you, mommy.

AUW: Thank you, daddy.

Jim: Thank you, daddy.

By: Jim Murdoch

Jim Murdoch — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:46:37 +0000

Uncomfortable reading. Really more depends on what you don’t tell us than what you do leaving us to fill in the blanks. And the horrors that we imagine are always worse than those we actually see.

By: An Unreliable Witness

An Unreliable Witness — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:33:50 +0000

I will never be able to look at a bottle of Diet Coke in the same way again. Though I’m hoping to God you meant the small 500ml variety, rather than the family size 2 litre bottle.

Sorry. Thinking in too much detail again.

This has to be read aloud. Trailer-trashed, glassy-eyed, flip-flopping, indeed.

By: xtx

xtx — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:05:15 +0000

not sure if this is sick or sweet. not that it matters. i liked it

By: Paul Squires

Paul Squires — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:42:43 +0000

That is very powerful and disturbing, Ani. Which is to say very well written, the characters seem very real and somehow there is a sense of size to them and the bottle contains an unexpressed but very horrible threat. Very well written.

By: Persico

Persico — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:26:11 +0000

It is thick in there.