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@SparklingEspeon I said I'd come back and give you a fuller reply ... aaaaand I still don't actually have time tonight. For now just officially thanks so much for your thoughts and for taking the time to read! I really appreciated it and I'm glad it sounds like you mostly enjoyed the ride. ❤️

A few more replies! Thank you both for taking the time to share some thoughts!

Ooh, I've got a bunch of reviews I haven't replied to yet! Sorry I'm slow, y'all.

Thanks so much for reading, Chibi! I’m glad you enjoyed these little guys. GASP at the blasphemous confession of not being a Hoenn stan. But thank you for recognizing that Route 119 is clearly the best Hoenn route, haha. ;) HA wait til you get to Continental Divides—it’s my “oops, all...

@Equitia thanks for taking the time to read... wow, all of them! 😳 Glad you seemed to enjoy them. Yeah, it wasn’t the main focus of this thing. I was really vibing on Invisible Cities and wanted to focus on bringing places to life. But I’ve been really enjoying short form world-building, so I...

You're hilarious hahaha. This was a fun review to start my day with. You're right -- they're tiny little things. The longest is still under 1.5k words. Glad you seemed to enjoy these even though it's not your usual cup of tea.

Haha, it's okay. I finished the bones of it last year. Just cleaning up with edits now thanks to all the lovely, helpful comments here. (UwU) Nah, some of them just jump in with that opener. Pulled from Invisible Cities. I'm into the disorienting effect, so I'm leaving it there. I'm thinking...

That's EXACTLY what I wad drawing from. Very good point. Paying service to Calvino too much again here. Dead, dying. Help. Hmm, I see your point structurally. Getting lost, maybe? ❤ ❤ ❤ Thanks for joining me on the ride.

Aside from any lingering edits...that's all she wrote! I am slowly working on a set of drabbles in this vein, so there will eventually be more of these little things. Meanwhile, I'm going start slowly, slowly uploading my chaptered WIPs onto the forums...soon! ✨ Cheers, all, and thanks for reading.

17. Home Leaving there, you finally arrive once again at the place called home. It’s not home anymore, not really. But you’ll never be able to call it anything else. When you walk a long time through the wild, you begin to crave home. The annual county fair. Your dad’s spaghetti and meatballs...

@Pen I support these suggestions. Will adjust.

16. Cities and Silence: Coffee Shop There are two ways of describing a postcard: a gift or a burden. One for each city, you told your best friend before you left. You made too many promises. The first few were easy, because you thought of home everywhere you went. You composed long letters in...

That’s probably part of it. A lot of the urban ones were also written more recently. Yay! Glad to hear it. Gotta catch em all. 👀 Haha told you. Yeah, this is one of the half-baked ones. I didn’t even think of the paradox between “nature = ol reliable” and “fleeting = most tantalizing.” Maybe...

15. Cities and Hunger: Nimbasa When you walk a long time through the city, you begin to crave wilderness. It’s not anxiety, even though cities do make you anxious. All those other trainers vying for crumbs of fame, the violent crime in the headlines. Or, at least, it’s not only anxiety. You...

Oh yeah, Chris has weird feelings about social media, but I love it. I'm addicted to my phone, actually. Oops. Was fun to write someone who has a different relationship to it for once. Actually had a long talk (and spreadsheeting sesh) with someone about that! There's actually a gym leader in...

14. Cities and Seeing: Lilycove You never see fat trainers on billboards or magazine ads. LeyLine is just as interested, if not more, in selling to fashionistas and to the young hopefuls who quit after a few weeks, the ones who are more dedicated to dressing like a trainer than to doing the...

13. Cities and Hunger: Veilstone Cities, like dreams, are expensive. Tonight is your eighth night in a row of beans and rice for dinner. You eat with your badge case next to you, “for flavor,” and as a reminder. You’ve got work to do. There are still some things you won’t do to save money or...

Driftveil I think I'm learning I can be more trusting and therefore more subtle, haha. Fair! I'll recalibrate that word. Maybe it's gurgling stomach settling down instead of [emotion] in [body part]. Those cheap beers, after all. Honestly, they feel flat to me, too. Inescapability was the...

@Negrek — good call on those grammar fixes. I’ll touch those up today. A very good point. I think in some of these “silence” is a code word for loneliness and in others it’s a code word for peacefulness. You’re right that I could make better use of the word here — a couple sentences would do...

12. Cities and Seeing: Saffron At first, it’s just another battle, if a frustrating one. Sure, your opponent is dressed shabbily, but so are you. Your nice shirt is for gym battles and important events, not fast cash battles in the parking lot of a foreclosed grocery store. You assume he wants...