Sour grapes

[devi]

The shortlist of winners for a story competition I entered has just come out. It is probably Bad and Wrong of me to be looking over the list of titles and thinking an awful lot of them are trite-sounding rubbish. I mean, "Somebody's Mother"! "The Summer's Day"! "Saturday's Kiss"! What is it with the 's thing? And "The Great Plains of Africa", ew. I really hope that's meant ironically. Though "The Happiest Mosquitoes in Breson" does sound quite interesting.

Fear Me, competition judges! Pass me over and I'll... I'll... mock your shortlist on my blog! Oh noes!

(Mine was called "We Wait In Joyful Hope". I like nicking chunks of prayers.)

Oh well. Insert standard grey-weather/stuckness/eye-strain grump here, then it'll be out of the way.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Pascal's Wager

I'm sure Asimov wrote a version of that. Probably about 40 years ago!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Actually, yeah, I think I've read it...

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I just read that as "Pascal's Wagner". I wish Asimov had've written that.

[several-bees.livejournal.com]

And I just read that as "Pascal's Wanger". Which I'm glad Asimov didn't write.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

And continuing in the same vein...

"Pascal's Winger", in which he takes over management of a very strange football team...

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

"If you believe the spam emails, and women prefer an, erm, larger man, you gain everything..."