Talk:Under a Rotting Sky/@comment-25052433-20150625003524

You ever see something on Facebook that is so brilliant, so honest and raw, so amazing that the "like" button simply isn't good enough. You wish the damned thing had a "love" button so you could properly express yourself.

Well, in the case of this story, I doubt there is much I can say to express how freaking amazing this was. This is the best pasta I have read this year, easily. It captured so much truth, so much simplicity bundled up into a few thousand words.

For a story with characters named Slug and Garbage, the cast of this pasta were very easy to identify as real people and develop a real understand and connection with. The fact that all the musical elements here were essentially a homage to the awesome music scene of the 80's only served to make me love this more.

Raven's change at the end also felt very natural. It would only make sense that a smart girl would give up the gutterpunk scene eventually and move back home. Down here in New Orleans we have tons of gutterpunks roaming the Quarter, and most of them do exactly what the ones in this story did, find an empty house and squat. You nailed that lifestyle down so well that it wouldn't surprise me if you didn't do some train hoping yourself at some point.

I feel the ending was a bit rushed, and left a little unexplained. However, the rest of the story more than made up for any conceptual holes that I may have noticed at the end.

As I said above, this is easily the best pasta that I've read this year. It made me nostalgic for the 80's, and the quality of the writing made it flow with ease. I read this in a single sitting without budging once.

Excellent work!