For those of you who read....
Both of you...
The short story entries to the City Paper, for it's yearly writing competition, were really great.
The first place winner was a really good short story called
"The 7-Year-Old Lush" The story has a little twist at the end so I won't go through the details but it's a nice quick read and chocked full of over the top - eh - descriptive passages like this:
A heavy-bottomed glass thudded on top of the thick oak of the bar. The kid turned around. It was his father. He liked watching his father work. Every drink started with the ice. In drove the scoop, the ice shrieking and then chuckling as it tumbled, dinging squarely into the glass. He smiled at the kid and demanded, "What's it?"
"Gin and tonic," said the kid.
The second place finisher was much better in my opinion. I think the story is a little too morose and strange but it's definitely more my speed. It probably got second because it was a little loose and odd. But, it was written much better:
Solids are all of the extremes of human emotion and human condition manifested as humanoids. They usually act and react like the emotions they represent. If you were to meet one of them, you’d think they were just a really temperamental person
It has a really great subject matter revolving around personifying human emotion and reactions. It's really fun to read and I recommend it highly. It's called
"The Janitor". I hope you enjoy them.
Kudos to the City Paper for releasing this edition and sorting through the mounds of drivel to find these really nice pieces of work.
