Talk:Daddy's Little Princess/@comment-11345660-20160111033818/@comment-26030957-20160111195057

It's meant to be a stand alone and the father is never even mentioned in the original story. All of my stories interconnect, if not with characters then with places. When writing the piece I didn't think starting a section with the line, "the old man cracks," was a "masterstroke" of clever subtlety. If anything it seems very clear and possibly even over the top.

Nitpicks are a bitch, aren't they? How about this one: you say that because when you listened to the song, you "couldn't hear what they were saying half the time," and because of that quoting the lyrics might be a mistake because they "could be easy to miss." Isn't that an issue you should be bringing up with Robert Smith? Complain to the singer. If you want to know the lyrics to this song, or any song, just google it. That's what I did.

"don't change your ways on my account"--don't worry, I won't. I've resisted the pressures of society, schools, cops, modern culture, fashion, laws, rules, churches, teams, institutions, doctors, and any other form of authority, for my entire life. If you knew anything about me personally, which some of the members of this wiki do, you would see what a laughable statement that is.

I don't wish to come off so rude. It's just that when I struggle to write a story that I think examines deep existential themes on the nature of family, art, and mortality, and enter it into a contest, when a reader comes along calling it a "five minute read" about "a nut job shooting up blood" I feel I have the right to defend my art.