User blog comment:MichaelDiaz101/Trash Surfing/@comment-26358727-20180216151101

What an entertaining piece!

I marvel at your ability to bounce back and forth between something very serious, very emotionally intense, and something so lighthearted. I think now you're beginning to inspire me to get back to writing and improve myself! This is wonderful!

I'm also a big fan of the contrast between Erick and Gregory. You have a very strong sense of voice in your writing; you write two very different, unique characters side-by-side and really bring those differences to light. The reader gets the sense that these two characters are good friends, but you do such a great job of emphasizing that two people don't have to be identical to get along. There is a well-defined boundary between the characters' morality that is very well-respected.

However, you've left me curious about the legality of trash surfing. I live in an apartment where a good portion of my front-window view is the building's dumpster and I've seen so many people in there, from people coming by at night with a flashlight to people coming through midday and loading up the back of a pickup truck. It never even occured to me that it might be against the law!