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

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I kind of like Night and Fog because it's the name of a very good Mercury Rev song. But did the writer know that?

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that. Do we get to read the stories & find out if they're based on Mercury Rev songs?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

You can hear them on the radio! I think they're broadcasting the whole shortlist...

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I'm liking the idea that perhaps the "author" just transcribed the lyrics to a Mercury Rev song and won an Irish short story competition thereby!

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I should try that.