Hello, and welcome! I'd like to start by saying I know next to nothing about poetry, but reading this, one can tell you put some real emotion in this one. To the untrained I (intended :P), this feels like it weaves between prose and verse throughout the whole piece. Also, I like the fact that the shape of the poem itself looks like a spider without any legs pointing down.

Hmmm, I intended the first to be a one-off with a nice comical twist that (hopefully) no one saw coming, but now that you've given a little more depth to bucket and added the dog, I'm interested to see where it goes. Are we going to have another twist where it takes a turn back to serious? Action comedy? Horror? Romance?

Thanks, glad you liked it. It wasn't my intention to poke fun at any women other than the narrator. I usually feel that I can come up with ideas, but not actualy any good "writing" so I just decided to make a chapter full of flash and zero substance, hence the title. I think it's more of a "I wonder how long it'll take the reader to figure out what this is about" kind of story.

Thanks, Katrina. I hope it won't be the last time.

Praise from Ceasar.

The two concepts that struck me most from the intial chapter (besides the exploding goose, of course) was the fact that you drew a lot of attention to Irving's name, and the title itself. Down in the Basement seemed like an unavoidable continuation. So, I just looked for something I could work with using names and basements.

Now I'm just gonna sit here and wait for Out in the Yard to come out.

I just felt compelled to write this after seeing the recent slew of new talent around here.

I'm actually a big supporter of the donut movement. I like mouffins, and the fresh, fluffy ones can really make my day, but I don't think I've had a muffin in about 2 years... maybe that's the real reason why I started to write about em?

Wrote a chapter for nash's Up on the Roof after being inspired by Vents are for hot air.

http://storymash.com/u/Regz/volobike/

One tries. And it wasn't 0 stars, yo. Give me/yourself some credit

Thank you. However, to make your disappointment less prolonged, no, I don't think I do get into detail into what most of the main characters look like. Just trying to make it easy to cast people for when the movie comes out :P