Claire King

Thanks, Claire, for your nice comment about 'We Are Busy Sewing the Flags of Our Children.' I'm glad it touched you.

Hi Claire: Thank you for your generous response to "For a Wounded Boy." I appreciate it much.

ClaIre (sorry for the stupid typo!)

Hi Claire, thanks very much for faving House Rabbit. Was a fun little piece to write, glad you liked!

Thank you for your kind words about "Sundays." They are much appreciated!

Thanks for your comment about "A Little Fishing." Yes, poor "Harpo." He never got around to sprucing up that car. It was a beauty, too.

Thank you Claire, for the fav on Ping Pong. I just saw on FB one of your stories touted, I think as part of 52/250... and will go, post-haste, to read it!

Hi, Claire. Thanks for reading and faving "The Proud Accounting." Always appreciate your visits and comments.

Claire, your words on Unpacking Sentences really made my day in so many ways! Thank you for your comments and the star.

Hi Clarie! Thanks for your wonderful comment on 'Swimming Pool'. I guess I'm sometimes more here than I am at others. The whole of life feels a bit like that at the moment ;)

Thank you so much Claire for commenting on "Just a Mountain". Appreciate it...

Claire, thanks so much for reading and enjoying some of my latest stories, very much appreciate!
Susan

Thank you for reading Rivals. Glad you liked it.

Claire! Thanks for the fab comment on Escalation! Much appreciated!!

Claire - thanks so much for your supportive comment on "Separation"! xo-meg

Thanks for faving "Bone Density," Clair. Very pleased you liked it so much.

i appreciate you're comments on It's Not Over...so, yes a different but still ardent appreciation of the oblong ball, each to their season...or better yet listen to the great George Carlin bit!

Thanks Claire! Responded on story wall: "Godot is like Leviathan and Behemoth rolled into one invisible monster."

Thanks, Claire. I think Godot may take many forms before it's all over.

Thanks for checking back in on Lish. My f'naut family is really great!

Thanks for the read, Claire. I really appreciate the positive comments on "Postman". When I get the audio version finished, I'll be sure to send you a link. ;)

So pleased that you re-read "Modern Warfare" and read it to your husband: thanks for the thoughtful attention and response.

Thanks, Claire, for the comment and the fave of my little paene to death and destruction.

Thanks for the generous comment on Midnight Riders. I appreciate the read.

re: "Infinity Pool." I'm responding as a reader only, Claire, not as a critic. I don't think the story necessarily has to be more explicit. For me, though, it needs to reward close reading. In other words, you don't have to spell everything out for me, but I need all the clues to be there, so if I'm truly observant, I should be able to figure it all out. There are a number of tantalizing details re: family relations in the story that don't quite cohere for me. As a reader, I find that frustrating. That being said, it all comes down to what you, the writer, intend with your story. What do you want the reader to come away with?

Hi Claire,

Thank you so much for your wonderful compliments--especially regarding the Russian. Glad to know my portrayal of this character so interesting.

Lovely blog. I looking forward to reading it.

All best,
Isabell

Thanks for commenting on and faving "Blossoms and Buds," Claire.

Claire, you made my night! Wow, thanks!

Sorry I made you cry. Love your responses to my stuff. Love my responses to your stuff. Did I tell you that a character has been brewing a couple months now in response to Peach? Soon... he wants out.

Thank you, Claire, for reading "Feeeeeuck" and commenting and for being Claire! Hope you are having a good summer! I cannot believe it is almost, over -- sort of. -meg

Claire - isn't baggage fun?
Thanks for the read and the comments!

Thanks, Claire! True story.

Claire, thanks for your good wishes on my Short Review piece, and your other kindnesses

Thanks for your kind comment on "Processes," Claire. I appreciate your words very much.

Thanks, Claire. re "What Words Are" - The last two lines are imported from another poem of mine, and I used them to shock the reader, and to contrast between the approach to God through words, and how words can seem irrelevant in the face of our new "gods" - high tech, the machine-mind.

Thanks Claire, I have been working and cringing, not necessarily in that order over the ms, it is better than it was, and a few thousand words shorter! Thanks for your encouragement, much appreciated! I haven't been on fictonaut for awhile as I'm preparing for my book launch of short stories, City Paddock. I'm hoping to raise lots for the Light Horse.

Oh my goddess, Claire. I went ahead and started reading you, and I think I'm hooked. "Flash", Peach, & Peach 2. Love them. I am learning to admire writers who's voices are, unlike mine, more than their own. Good good good. ~J

Claire, you are always so kind. Thank you so much for your comments about "Naked Ladies."

Thanks, Claire, for your comments on Weakest Link. Oh that zebra crossing! someone's got a funny sense of humour. I love it.

I love Peach!

hi claire,

glad you are here on FN

thanks or wandering through the archinve and reminding me i HAD a poem called "question."

now that i remember it, i will try to remember what i am am doing today, also.

cheers,

gary

Thanks, Claire, for your lovely comments on my poem.

Claire, great that you enjoyed Purple Patch! :-)

Thanks for coming back to read again. No worries about misssing the metapor. The beauty of words to me is that they can mean so many different things to different people when mashed together.

Thank you for the fave on the kamikaze songbirds! It is greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Claire and welcome.

We must be related :-)

Hey, we share the same name! Welcome.