9 [Report This]Date: November 09, 2006 05:23 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
This made me happy :) Very cute and hopeful
Author's Response: Thank you!
9 [Report This]Date: November 09, 2006 06:09 am Title: Strawberry Chapstick
Wow. This was charming and as sweet as - well, strawberry chapstick! Although I do still have a certain fondness for Dr. Pepper Lip Smackers! Very nice.
Author's Response: Thank You! I'll admit, I lived on Dr.Pepper Lip Smackers for most of my middle school years...but Strawberry Chapstick is special in that you can never find the bloody stuff. :)
10 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 08:10 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
I love this. The story of Jim loving a girl in fifth grade and loving her strawberry chapstick is already adorable and smile-worthy, but the rest of the story? Love it. I especially love how you took a simple, ordinary, tiny taste, and made an entire story grow from that.
Great job!!
Author's Response: Thank you! I love how in reality, the ordinary tastes and smells and all that are the things we remember. :)
10 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 04:58 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
This is such a nice story! I think it is great you took a taste and built a whole story around it. Lovely! :)
Author's Response: Thank you so much!
8 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 04:46 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
Loved it.
Author's Response: Thanks!
10 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 04:41 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
I love stories that take a little item like lipgloss and make it mean so much. Well done!
Author's Response: Thank you! I shall never look at my Strawberry Chapstick the same way again. :)
Date: November 08, 2006 04:27 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
ACK! You are killing me! Cannot wait for The Merger!!!
Author's Response: Only one more week....:)
Date: November 08, 2006 04:02 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
Mmmmm. Tasty. Thank you.
Author's Response: You are welcome! (And thank you for the review.)
10 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 04:01 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
I love this hopeful fic, and I love fifth-grade Jim. (As though there is a Jim I don't love. Pshaw!)
Well done!
Author's Response: Thank you! I love fifth-grade Jim as well...I like to think of Jim as a.....serial unrequited lover. Which is sad, but cute.
10 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 03:59 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
Ah, story love! I hate the feeling of chapped lips, this was quite "painful" in a real sense. I kept wanting to lick my lips and see if they were chapped when I was reading this. Nice sensory detail. I also love hopeful Pam. I think it's very true, I think she will get up early on the day he comes in and will wait for him ... *sigh*
Nice job. Thanks for posting!
Author's Response:
I HATE chapped lips, and I actually had them whilst writing this, so that is why I included so much detail - I was suffering. :) Hopeful Pam is my favorite - I hope that we can see her sitting there alone, waiting for him to come in on that first day...*double sigh*
Thanks for the review!
10 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 03:51 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
Jim in unrequited love in fifth grade - perfect. Great dialogue. And, I like how you ended it with Pam's anticipation, instead of the 'pay-off'. Hits a lovely note with a light touch.
Author's Response: Thanks! I'd like to believe that the rest of the day went the way Pam wanted it to - ha, we'll see just how wrong I am in a week. :)
10 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 03:40 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
So cute! Best one I've read in a while. And, yes, Oregon Trail is perfect.
Author's Response: Thanks so much! Oregon Trail IS perfect. I think that the Scranton Branch should take a page from the Stamford one and start playing Oregon Trail all the time - team building exercise and all that.
10 [Report This]Date: November 08, 2006 03:35 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
I really enjoyed this! Jim's fifth-grade love story was just funny enough to be real, and I love what the lipgloss represented.
Author's Response: Thank you! Sometimes I feel like Jim and Pam have that whole awkward 5th grade love thing happening, and I tried to mirror that. :)
Date: November 08, 2006 03:32 pm Title: Strawberry Chapstick
Too adorable for words! My favorie lines:
"I sat next to Tiffany in computer class. You know, whenever we played Oregon Trail, I would name my wife Tiffany."
"Well, that IS love. Creepy, Oregon Trail love. Did she die of a snakebite?"
Beautiful.
Author's Response: Thanks - you know that naming your spouse on OT after your crush in elementary school is the ultimate symbol of true love. :)