http://xwf99.com/showthread.php?tid=6302


... I was originally going to just say, John Austin told me you were good, and he was right, but... this part, this whole damned section --

~ ~ ~

Box a man a hundred times and you'll think the next guy will be no different... until you throw your first punch and realize he has metal underneath that skin. A million times you can get use to a certain label or think you've seen it all.. so ya call it like ya see it. But what happens when that next person you try to call out.. really is different?

I don't cast pearls to the swine.

Two men stand in front of ya.. and you give each of 'em a penny. One tosses it away.. it's just a penny.. one cent.. it can't buy anything. The other man happens to notice it's a 1943 copper wheat penny.. it's not one cent.. it's worth over a hundred thousand dollars.

To many.. a penny is a penny. Ya see a gold lookin' coin and see it's a penny. You go out into a field and hear a man preachin' and think it's just another 'one of them preachers'. BROAD is the way.. BROAD is the road people say its just a penny. NARROW, Miss Callaway, NARROW is the road to where people see its more than just a penny..

.. its a 1943 copper wheat penny.

~ ~ ~

... I needed to read that. Thank you.

You are good. And I mean REALLY good. I could hear the character saying those words in my head... I could feel his conviction. I could feel it, because that's how I feel, within myself. I am tired of people believing they have me figured out. You capture emotion. And you capture it well.

Looking forward to reading more.



[ps -- to everyone who says i shouldn't make a thread FOR a writer, and instead, wait till they make one of their own... I say? Some writing deserves to be pointed out. And this is such a piece.]