Favorite Sentence From Today's Writing

[dr_pretentious]

She was still ten feet from her car when the Jersey Devil finished the last of the Fruit Roll-Ups.


My, it's been a while since I posted last. February 28th was the anthology deadline, and I've just finished slogging through the last of the slush. Now for the tough choices. For those of you waiting in suspense, we'll have answers soon. Many thanks to everyone who sent us stories. We got a lot of great stuff, far more than we can fit into this volume. It's been a true pleasure.

Comments

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

love it! hee hee

Your job

[amushink.livejournal.com]

I have decided over this past weekend that I want your job and that I am uniquely suited to it. I spend all my time reading a combination of crap and the occasional gem, I read bout a hundred pages an hour, and my elderly cat wants me to find a job I can do from home with her on my lap. I should have gone into slush pile editing.

Only I still want my same salary.

Re: Your job

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Salary? You want a salary?

A hundred pages an hour is an enviable clip. Grad school made me such a compulsively careful reader, I'm lucky if I can keep up half that speed now. Maybe the attentiveness helps me, but I'm still not sure it was a good trade.

[thunderpigeon.livejournal.com]

That's from your own work, right? I don't recall it in the slush pile. And I'm pretty sure I would've remembered that one.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's part of Ria's misadventures in the Pine Barrens.

[(Anonymous)]

Your Jersey Devil is so much more personable than my Jersey Devil (which appears in "Behind the Tower" but is never mentioned by name).