I'm cribbing this idea from another messageboard. The idea is that someone will post the first three lines of their story. Then the next person will provide a critique along with three lines from their story. And so on.
I'll start:
The Scavli'Jakaul Venjzard were a child's dream turned nightmare. Tyrannosaurlike entities with quadruple-jointed limbs and a body in flux between the solid, liquid and gaseous phases. Their needle-fangs--the only constant amid chaos--dripped gore as they fed on the uninfected marshfolk that didn't explode into greenfire when sprayed with the elemental reptiles' venom.
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"...the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something … fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve.
And in so doing, they will miss the whole **** point.”
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