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The Last Yule in Halabor  by Soledad 4 Review(s)
DreamflowerReviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/16/2005
I tried to leave a review earlier, but was using my husband's laptop, and for some reason, it thinks the review box is a pop-up, and blocks it!

What a sad little family! Such hard workers, such hard circumstances, and yet as fate would have it, it's the very thing that made their life sad that also made it *survivable*. A very nice bit of irony that most of the family not only survived but benefited from the disaster, something that does occasionally happen in the real world.

NilmandraReviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/5/2005
This is a sad look at how hopes and dreams are unmet.... and while some of the wealthy and healthy died, they survived. I hope their life was better in the end.

Author Reply: I guess a "better" life is a matter of perspective, isn't it? But I'm quite optimistic about some of them.

ImrahoilReviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/5/2005
These stories are heartbreakingly well done. Will come back to your kind offer of looking up the second chapter of "The Shoemaker's daughter", but have only time for skimming at the moment and I want to read it properly.

Author Reply: Oh, you have all the time of the world. If the gods of cyberspace allow, it will stay there for a while. :)

I'm happy that you like these little "exercises". I was a bit afraid that since all the characters are OCs, that will scare people away.

BodkinReviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/5/2005
I'm glad they survived - and hope that they had a happier life. They had a hard enough time keeping body and soul together - and at least it seems as if Selyn and Nista had a chance of being better off in the future. Melyor - what can you say - unwilling to slave for a pittance, she can only come to a bad end!

Author Reply: Yes, indeed - in the end, what counts is always what we make of which has been dealt us by life, right?

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