Aus yarn competition.

I submitted several short stories to the short story competition I The West.

No, I did not expect to win. ( though a well done mention would have been terrific :-)

But no surprise when the top 50 list was published with no mention of me

Today, The West published one of their "better" entries.

Now I feel a whole lot better.

The published story is... crap.

Stereotype overlaid on cliche.

Woke mysticism with pointless violence. Ben Elton Muppet structure: not sure what to do so... blow everyone up.

My own stories are mild.

Nonsense. Designed to elicit a smile, perhaps.

Logical constructs within their own illogical worlds.

Providing, perhaps, a light message of the potential down side of unthinking development.

That's what I try for, anyway :-)

My own stories would be embarrassed to stand with the rubbish that, today, was presented as being a "good" short story.

In such awful company... I am pleased to go unnoticed.

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper