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I checked my email and found a message about the imminent read/rate deadline for the WSFA Small Press Award nominees shunted into a "to do" folder. So I read, and rated, on a two-day deadline. If I'm in a tearing hurry to read a set of short fiction nominees, I get mean. Really:
1.) I grade on a curve favoring shorter stories.
2.) No-caps titles: pretentious, or really pretentious?
3.) I've been in media fandom. I have seen zanier and more clever premises: story prompts by way of they fight crime will not carry the day. Or your story.
( How I graded. )
Warning: these are not kind reviews. I would go so far as to say these aren't reviews: they're my idiosyncratic reactions to a set of short stories I read in a compressed time-frame. On a sugar high. Anyone getting here by google alerts: this is your only warning.
On to the alphabetical-by-title op-ed!
( What I read. )
1.) I grade on a curve favoring shorter stories.
2.) No-caps titles: pretentious, or really pretentious?
3.) I've been in media fandom. I have seen zanier and more clever premises: story prompts by way of they fight crime will not carry the day. Or your story.
( How I graded. )
Warning: these are not kind reviews. I would go so far as to say these aren't reviews: they're my idiosyncratic reactions to a set of short stories I read in a compressed time-frame. On a sugar high. Anyone getting here by google alerts: this is your only warning.
On to the alphabetical-by-title op-ed!
( What I read. )