(prose poems in the spirit of Clark Ashton Smith)
I was thinking George Sterling when I bought it.
And I certainly thank you for doing so!
Hi, folks! I hung back and just watched the comments with the first two stories but decided to speak up with this one. For those who weren't into it, sorry it didn't work for you. For those of you who dig it, thank you so much!
I am of the school that the story itself needs to be the most obvious thing about a story, if anything about the telling takes the forefront, than it's just a needless distraction from what's important.
See, to my mind, the future tense of "Let There Be Darkness" is part and parcel of how the story
has to be told, just as "The Button Bin" would be a radically different story if it wasn't in second person. "The Button Bin" is an internal monologue, a man talking to himself; "Let There Be Darkness" is a prophecy. So while I have no problem with your axiom, as I writer I think
how the story is told is just as essential. And as a result some of my stories are relatively unadorned in how they unfold, while some experiment. I definitely grateful to
Pseudopod for choosing to showcase some of my wackier efforts.
That doesn't mean you're wrong to dislike it. Your reading experience is yours, not mine.
so stories based on the Christian mythos doesn't immediately tug my brainstrings. ... I guess the narrator remotely resembled a character.
Fair cop! I wasn't really interested in creating a character when I wrote this. I was interested in apocalyptic carnage, hee.
One of the things I love about being in
Pseudopod is that there's no sense of monologuing into a vacuum -- you actually have "readers"! And feedback! It's awesome. Thanks, all of you.
Mike Allen