A waste of my eartime.
In this, it's not unlike most Podcastle Miniatures. I think I remember there was one that I actually liked, and another that I sort of halfway liked, but at the moment i can't name them.
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#8, "Believe" and #9, "What Dragons Prefer", are the only Miniatures I've liked so far. The one I thought I might have halfway-liked was #7, "Tooth Fairy", which I actually only damned with faint praise. What is it about these Miniatures that so few work with me?
There's a lot of people on the Pseudopod boards that disliked PP flash (back when I was paying attention). I loved it and was like "ho, target audience right here, keep it coming". I loved it more, in fact, than I love PC flash, though some of PC's flash I find quite to my liking. Nothing on PC has been as good as "Rite of Atonement" on PP (though I think that could have run on PC had it not predated PC) or the one about the box, which was amazing and I can't remember the title of right now.
I think it may be as simple as you not liking the form. "Believe" and "What Dragons Prefer" have more story-like elements, like an arc of plot, which this one, and others (such as Directions and The Desires of Houses) do not have. You may be drawn to flash only when it can be a full, regular story, but short.
Personally (though "Believe" was one of my favorites so far) I usually like flash that's less storylike, more about impressions and snapshots. You'd think that would make me love this one, but it turns out I didn't. I'm not sure why. It wasn't flawed in a way I can discern, and some of the writing was quite pretty, but ehhhh, it didn't push my buttons or get me right there like I know flash can.