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Title: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Post by: Russell Nash on December 05, 2008, 09:38:31 AM
Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You (http://escapepod.org/2008/12/05/escape-pod-flash-fiction-contest-honorable-mention-hello-i-love-you/)

By Katherine Sparrow (http://katherinesparrow.net/).
Read by Rachel Swirsky (http://www.rachelswirsky.com/).

"Junk DNA? I’ll junk your DNA!” Sofia glared at Zorg.

“Apologies. It is only, don’t you find it interesting? Most of it is unused–”

“Junk? You supercilious aliens come to Earth to rein snottiness on us lowly humans? How sublime. I suppose your DNA is full of Porsches?”

Rated PG.


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Listen to this week’s Escape Pod! (http://media.rawvoice.com/escapepod/media.libsyn.com/media/escapepod/EPFlash032_HelloILoveYou.mp3)

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Original Contest thread for The Way Before (http://forum.escapeartists.net/index.php?topic=251.0)
Title: Re: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Post by: RicV on December 05, 2008, 02:09:54 PM
meh. 

Seemed to lack something critical for the leap from beginning to end. 

Dont get me wrong it had me interested, but just left me unsasfied.  Like fast food.
Title: Re: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Post by: Hatton on December 08, 2008, 08:24:41 PM
Heh, she said probe.
Title: Re: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Post by: eytanz on December 09, 2008, 01:23:03 PM
Ack. Bad, bad science + cheesy ending do not for a good story make.
Title: Re: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Post by: MacArthurBug on December 09, 2008, 08:49:26 PM
this wasn't horrible, but it was definatly missing something.
Title: Re: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Post by: thomasowenm on December 12, 2008, 11:39:02 AM
I know it's flash, but the ending wasn't complete.  Maybe I'm dense but, in my opinion it didn't answer the question of why the aliens were there.  Even though the story said it did.  On a positive note it did have potential as a longer story, I was interested up until the endidng. 
Title: Re: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Post by: eytanz on December 12, 2008, 02:17:44 PM
Quote from: thomasowenm on December 12, 2008, 11:39:02 AM
I know it's flash, but the ending wasn't complete.  Maybe I'm dense but, in my opinion it didn't answer the question of why the aliens were there. 

The aliens were there to activate human's unused DNA (ouch, it pains me just to type that), which will make humans share in the universal love. I thought that was pretty clear.

Whether this is a good or bad thing, whether this is a matter of uplifting the human race or a subtle form of conquest is up to the listener, but that's a matter of being open to interpretation, not a matter of incompleteness, at least in my impression.

Not that that salvages the basic premise of the story, though.
Title: Re: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hello, I Love You
Post by: Unblinking on February 12, 2010, 02:55:50 PM
Not bad, but I think I would've liked it more if it were expanded a bit.  It did seem a bit incomplete.