REAP(A STORY MADE BY DARKSHADE9)

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I am currently writing a book about the Grim Reaper, his friend, and the Devil himself.
Here's the first page:

Prologue
New reaper




Kama looked into the black void of the mask's eye sockets. The mask was pale, bony, and had an unfeeling expression on its face. It was the mask of the Grim Reaper, otherwise known as Johnathan T. Ford.
Johnathan was a respectable man. He was tall, strong, and wore rounded, rectangular glasses. Black hair, brown eyes a pretty normal sized nose, and a wide smile created his facial features. As a fairly good policeman and video game designer, he made a suitable amount of money, which mostly went to either charity, food, bills, and his family.
Johnathan had always liked Japanese culture. Their language, beliefs, their strangely animated cartoons called anime, and common lifestyles all inspired him. As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints, he served a mission in Japan, due to his love for the country. There he met a beautiful woman by the name of Sakura, which means “cherry blossom” in Japanese. He soon married her, and they had a child. The child was born with white hair-hardly any, but white hair nonetheless-and had a gloomy expression on its face. Unusual for a person, it also had green eyes, not the normal green you see commonly, but a strange, light green that seemed to glow in darkness. Sakura and Johnathan named the baby Kama, which means scythe in Japanese.
Of course it sounded like an odd name to both parents, but the baby boy responded to it with obvious pleasure.
As Kama grew older, his white hair became even paler, as did his skin. He learned to never comb his hair, making it shoot in all directions like a colorless firework display.
His eyes stayed the same eerie luminescent green. When Kama was about four years old, his mother and father, who were still living in Japan at the time, decided they were due to go back to America.
Johnathan missed his friends and family in the U.S.A., and Sakura wanted to know what things were like in the other land. Kama had heard his father tell him of the strange foods and ways. Johnathan told Kama that people didn't eat sushi, and they ate a lot more pizza. He told Kama that there was a liquid called “Coca Cola”, and that it stung your mouth and throat, but tasted delicious. He showed pictures of America. “The women look weird.” Kama had said in the American language his father was just teaching him.
“They probably think mom looks weird.” said Johnathan.
“Why? She looks normal, and they don't.”
Johnathan chuckled, and resumed showing Kama pictures of America without another word.

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I like the concept, it should prove an interesting read when finished. I like the amount of detail going for the character descriptions, there, and I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that the fact hes Grim Reaper wont be treated so nonchalantly later since its the first part.
The only problem I have is that I'm not sure it's proper to hide little footnotes in hyphens -like so-. I'm pretty sure that's what parenthesis would be used for, maybe a semicolon and splitting the sentence a bit.
But hell I'm not even sure I'm right there. I just know my English professor would yell at me for it.

Anyway, it looks good. Nothing non-trivial to complain about. Keep it up.
Sounds like a good story. I like the detail that you have added in. It really describes what the story is about as well as the characters.
Thanks. I did a little editing though, so it doesn't notify the reader of a grim reaper mask at the beginning. Instead, it's now announced in chapter 1, whereas this is now the prologue. The statement about the mask is not needed until the first chapter, otherwise it messes up the new stuff I have so far.
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