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RE: Fighters

in The Ink Well4 years ago

Splendid! She must overcome her bird-phobia to come to the assistance of a baby rejected by its own mother.

Yet the little creature, limp, barely clinging to life, hardly resembled the swarming, mobbing, snatching things of her nightmares - it seemed so fragile on her palm.

And though everyone warns she'll only be prolonging its misery, that she should let nature take its course, she learns how to feed and care for this little creature - this fighter. She was still as scared of birds as ever. But she didn't see this one as just another bird. #Love it!

P.S. For future reference, English has no apostrophe in "its" - the possessive, like "his" and "hers," which is crazy, while "it's" is the contraction for "it is." Just FYI. :)

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Thank you very much! I liked setting it up like she would stop being afraid of birds but then in the end, hadn't overcome it at all. I came to a similar acceptance of just a single spider, it's amazing the human capacity to hold two seemingly opposed perspectives and reconcile them just fine. The exception that proves the rule and all :l

Awww damn it, I shouldve spotted that, I'm so bad for really basic mistakes, like if two completely unrelated words start the same I can easily type the wrong one without noticing. My auto pilot just gets carried away sometimes. Thank you for mentioning it, English is my first language so not so much an FYI for the future but I do need to up my proofreading, especislly with anything written on my phone, the autocorrect is just as bad as me. That said it's just easy to not think about the stuff we use all the time, I used to get Italians joking about how much better their English is than mine haha

Ooh, now I want the story of your spider friend!
English is a ridiculous language, hard to learn, with so many exceptions to the rule. Sorry if I came across like a stern English teacher. For the sake of our many non-native English writers here, I thought I'd give it a mention.