Date: 12/19/09 06:23 pm Title: The Crane Wife
aww..that was beautiful.
Author's Response: Thank you!
Date: 12/19/09 04:47 pm Title: The Crane Wife
This story is just so amazing. It's like a fairy tale, both magical and romantic. I wish I could give a better review, but this just blew me away! Lovely!
Author's Response: Thank you! I'm so glad that you enjoyed it.
Date: 12/19/09 02:34 pm Title: The Crane Wife
Oh, that was beautiful. Fabulously and deftly done.
Author's Response: Thank you!
Date: 12/19/09 12:43 pm Title: The Crane Wife
Aw I absolutely loved it.
Author's Response: Thanks!
Date: 12/19/09 11:56 am Title: The Crane Wife
That was a gorgeous story
so pretty =]
Author's Response: Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!
Date: 12/19/09 11:38 am Title: The Crane Wife
awwwwwwwwww so cute XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXO
Author's Response: Glad you enjoyed it!
Date: 12/19/09 11:18 am Title: The Crane Wife
You've no idea how much it touched me. This was the kind of story I needed this morning and I even recced it on my LJ.
It's also on my faves and I want to read it over and over again now! <333
Thank you so much for writing it and now I gotta go listen to that song!
Date: 12/19/09 10:09 am Title: The Crane Wife
That was really beautiful, magical and fairytale-like. I know it wasn't specifically a Christmas story, but it felt like one. Lovely.
Author's Response: I was actually listening to Christmas music while writing this, so it definitely feels like a Christmas story to me. Or, at least, a celebration of winter, and the magical things it can bring. I'm so glad you enjoyed it...its definitely something a little different for me.
Date: 12/19/09 09:55 am Title: The Crane Wife
Oh my god.
What a beautiful story.
I can understand so much of this Tom, for I've felt the same before I had someone in my life.
What beautiful scenes you wrote here and I can envision them and feel the way Tom feels as he thinks about his home in the woods. How untouched by man it was and it left him with the chance to truly enjoy all of mother nature had to offer.
The crane just pulled at my heartstrings and I would have done exactly the same thing. And I would have thought of nothing else but the beautiful animal if I was away from him for as long as a minute. I can imagine how thankful he was to Tom for caring enough about his welfare
It was already making me teary-eyed in a good way at how much change he had already brought to Tom just that one night and the morning after, the smile on his face as he rushed to greet his patient. Lovely, just lovely, but I also knew that such a beautiful animal cannot be kept away from where he was meant to be. So the fact that hours later Tom returned to find him looking outside, I knew it was more than inevitable.
I could imagine how much it tore at Tom's heart to actually let him go and set him free, but he knew he couldn't be selfish enough to hold him back. I was so sad for Tom how his existence suddenly did a 180 and how lonely he felt now that his little friend was gone.
How my heart soared at that knock on the door later and thankful to Tom's dream the previous night, he easily recognized the boy on his door and it was as if his world was alright again because he was taking care of someone now and they would never leave Tom.
I truly love this and as I sit here looking outside at our first snowfall, I shall dream of that night in Tom's woods when he first encountered his beautiful white crane.
And smile.
Author's Response: Thank you so much, this is such a lovely review! I'm so glad to hear that you connected emotionally with this story.