crikey, ragandbonepress, and they can't even afford capitals.
good luck, competition entrant… did they charge a fee for entering?
On 16/08/2012, at 12:34 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Thanks, Doug, Max.
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> In my 'defence', I could say that I was seeking to create a naive, perhaps even archaic voice. Hence 'nay' in the first sense, Max, of 'no, not'. But I concede that does sound mannered and is an affectation that can be excised. It is not 'highly ironic'.
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> Doug, what I had done, was to create a sort of omnibus version of the whole 'sign' mini-saga and converted it to prose to enter in a local short story competition run by ragandbonepress. Then I sliced off the last part, titled it Epilogue and refiddled it a bit for for the snap. As poetry, I can see how your slices improve.
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> Cheers,
> Bill
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