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"The Levee" by Ben Thomas
« Thread Started on Jul 31, 2007, 4:52pm »		[Quote]
Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "The Levee" by Ben Thomas, featured in Issue #2.

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If you haven't read the story yet, STOP RIGHT HERE and go read it!! This discussion may contain spoilers. At the end of the story, you'll find a link back to this thread.
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Re: "The Levee" by Ben Thomas
« Reply #1 on Aug 4, 2007, 5:05pm »		[Quote]
I like this story a lot. The words and images are simple, straightforward but very well expressed. The air of the everyday is balanced with mystery and it has a very strong ending. The violent intrusion of the fantastic into the real at the end of the story has something in common, I think, with "Beat the Devil". Both stories clearly indicate the surreal conditions they start from, but keep those conditions largely at bay until the climax.

I especially liked this: **quasi-spoiler follows**

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And then, above this crowd of tormented souls, at the very bottom of that black celestial pit, I saw what was behind them, driving them onward with tentacled whips, bellowing to them with its mouths, devouring our sun and our light, and the light of the million other worlds to which it somehow also reached. Its body lay everywhere; its appendages manifold; its hunger insatiable.
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Re: "The Levee" by Ben Thomas
« Reply #2 on Aug 4, 2007, 9:42pm »		[Quote]

I liked the solitude of both characters and the unspoken but implied link of the two.
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Re: "The Levee" by Ben Thomas
« Reply #3 on Aug 7, 2007, 12:16pm »		[Quote]
Thanks for the kind words, both of you!

I wish I had something more specific to say, but mostly I'm just glad you enjoyed it.
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Re: "The Levee" by Ben Thomas
« Reply #4 on Nov 24, 2007, 1:58pm »		[Quote]
I thought it would be worth mentioning that Ben has lately sold a story called "The Man with the Myriad Scars" to Weird Tales: http://myliteracity.blogspot.com/2007/10/weird-tales.html
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Re: "The Levee" by Ben Thomas
« Reply #5 on Nov 24, 2007, 2:51pm »		[Quote]
Bravo for Ben. No easy feat, cracking Weird Tales. I came close about five years ago, but missed.

Rather than keep sending mss to W. T., I got off on a tangent where I was more interested in improving my writing, and also writing stories as they came to me (unfiltered by anyone's guidelines). That's what I love about Fantastic Horror. Y'all don't give a whit what the story's about as long as it grabs you.

Again, sincere congrats, Ben.

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Re: "The Levee" by Ben Thomas
« Reply #6 on May 22, 2008, 8:39am »		[Quote]
An interesting read.

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