The following is the actual review.
"Shafts of Imagination" is the compendium of literature for Logan Shafts. Written as a sort of anthology, it is a thread focused entirely on housing the multifarious short stories this author has written. Ranging from contest submissions to pieces written out of sheer enjoyment from the art, this omnibus showcases all of Logan Shafts — the good and the bad. Indeed, I struggle to find appropriate terms to classify this anthology or to define its contents because the thread itself offers no such views.
Introduced with a piece in line with the rest of the thread, Shafts of Imagination's first post is riddled with tense confusion, elementary style, and, in what will appear to the reader after a gander at any three stories housed in the thread, cliché endings. The most strikingly talented portion of this thread is not housed in the literature itself but rather in the fact that Logan Shafts was able to deliver with such unfaltering consistency a format of story that he turned it single-handedly from an original quip into an overused farce.
The entire thread is elementary, and not by means of solely literary prowess. The stories are matched impeccably with each other: novice styles are matched with amateur diction and an elementary plot to make a story that even R.L Stine readers would find too simple. Giving credit where it is due, I cannot say that the author went half-hearted into any story in this compilation. Every piece, down to the tittles of the i, is matched with an overly simplistic style. Unfortunately, the pieces are so well executed in the fundamentals that they are unbecoming and occasionally tacky to an otherwise advanced reader. To be sure, to a child newly discovered in the enjoyment of literature, these pieces offer bountiful solace. For a reviewer expecting the advancements of publishable literature, however, it was disappointing.
11-Nov-2011 21:29:02
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Yrolg
Here I was under the impression applications would be closed until the 7th of December. But now I’ve come to find I’ve missed the application submissions… Of course, it’s my fault for not checking your thread more often, Yrolg. So I suppose I will wait faithfully until the next opening!