Thanks Perpetual Man for shortlisting me!
There's hope for me yet! Yey! And for your review.
And also Starbeast for your review; it's nice to meet you too
Thanks jonnyjet for your honourable mention!
And thanks to Victoria Silverwolf for your comment.
I've never let anyone read so much as this since I was at school!!! So this process is good for me... if daunting. I'm terrible with being knocked back. So much so I never put anything out there. Stupid I know blah blah blah...
Some thoughts I had;
AMB: It just had to be Rick Astly! It's the epitomy of 'so terrible it's funny'. Apparenty the same happened with a set of runic tablets found in a burial. There were huge hopes of what secrets of the past they may tell but they turned out to be jokes!
Ursa Major: Loved it. A picture of being 'your own worst enemy'. The end's told without needing to be.
Parson: I agree with Starbeast; a breath of fresh air. So much is shocking, nasty, fast or bleak that it's a simple pleasure to be calmed by a positive futuristic image of what's actually most defining of us; our closest relationships.
Glen: This touched me. The Captain's comic name starts you with an emotional impression which is so polarised from his actual situation. Everyone who's ever lived would wish to be able to tell the person they lost that they loved them. This is excellent as, even without death, and communication still being rudementarily possible, Dad's loss of his son is no less.
Mootbat: A fine comment on the end product of an ever increasingly automated, churning world that actually produces nothing of value. Linked by a childs toy in a humerous way... but therin lies it's darker legacy...
Luiglin: Poignant to me. The Silent Running nod was the bit that got me; childish in their cartoon origin, the 3 charaters are so finally sad and lonely in the film; I cried for the last little robot. Without her Dad, is that how the girl, and the next generation, will grow up out there in space? (And that's without mentioning the psycho computer.)
Stormcrow: A book martyr. An object as sacred as family ties. And, similarly, worth dying for.
The Spurring Platty: Evocative. A rich picture of place and race in so few words.
The Judge: Cor blimey. Seriously moving sadness. From the lawsuit to decades of determination to 'cure' the grief. A curious perspective on the nature of a mother's love, for if it were any other would we not call it obsession?
Brev: A very neat, tiny snippit that's all needed to tell the circle of that world's history over a thousand years. Ripe for a 'break the cycle' sequel focused on Agger's son?
which leads me on to
The Dusty Zebra: The many short lines of like and like form the cycle which gives the last line something firm to break.
HareBrain: Wondrously lovely silliness! Simple as
Perpetual Man: A splendid twist, not only in the tale, but in the mood. From grandiose, classic fantasy to chin rubbing, 'sickener' chanting peevishness. SO THERE!
Faves in no order:
Ursa Major
The Judge
Glen
Luiglin
Vote.... tough one.
The Judge.
