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Message started by Steve Hooley on Jan 1^st, 2012, 8:35am

Title: "Stuff" and WHITE-OUT
Post by Steve Hooley on Jan 1^st, 2012, 8:35am

Adrienne and Vicki,

Great stories! Adrienne, I see you and I were thinking along similar lines.
Happy New Year, everyone. To a year full of many new and interesting stories.

Steve Hooley

Title: Re: "Stuff" and WHITE-OUT
Post by Adrienne_Ray on Jan 1^st, 2012, 11:53am

Yeah, it's funny how these stories sometimes seem to be on the smae page even though the authors haven't read each others work.
Looks like we're starting off the year with some great stories. Here's to an amazing year of flash fiction!

Title: Re: "Stuff" and WHITE-OUT
Post by Adrienne_Ray on Jan 1^st, 2012, 11:55am

To those of you in the real world the word 'smae' means 'same'.
Maybe I was partying too hard last night.

Title: Re: "Stuff" and WHITE-OUT
Post by Webbie on Jan 1^st, 2012, 8:51pm

Adrienne_Ray wrote on Jan 1^st, 2012, 11:53am:

Yeah, it's funny how these stories sometimes seem to be on the same page even though the authors haven't read each others work.
Looks like we're starting off the year with some great stories. Here's to an amazing year of flash fiction!

It's surprising how often that happens. I keep the contest topics deliberately vague so people have some room to play with.

Of course other times I get nothing like I thought I would.

;)

Title: Re: "Stuff" and WHITE-OUT
Post by monsoonster on Jan 2^nd, 2012, 10:47pm

Excellent story. I like these "long after the fact" stories. Nice one getting in the Al Gore "global warming" nudge; and then it ends up cool.

Just one quibble, if I may. You know from my introduction things like this make me shudder and want to pull my hair out:
Quote:

When the humans knew their culture was dieing....

The correct spelling is d-y-i-n-g. There is no such word as "dieing". (to dye wool, for example, is spelled; d-y-e-i-n-g) Nothing personal. I'm one of those "comment" correctors you see on comment pages.

Regardless, good job. Great story.