competition results

Yesterday, I got the results of the Aesthetica Annual Competition. I didn't make it into the finalists, but did get a highly commended, for my story Undone. Am really pleased, because apparently there were 2500 entries and only 50 got commendations!

Also - good luck to the 16 finalists :-)

spotted

The woman limping past Ralph Lauren on Newbury St. carrying a plastic crate. She's wearing a red & white tracksuit and has a black eye.

crush

The pretty girl mumbling to the cute guy with the hearing aid - it's hard to make out what she's saying, but when she leaves he's smiling.

talking over coffee

"So - in the second set I have them stand somewhere else and tell them: try to feel - um - irrelevant."

emotion overheard

Hard to tell if he's laughing or crying: "What are we going to do man? There's nothing to do."

road trip

The car with the old tatty sofa on its roof that we followed all the way from Vermont to Boston.

greeting

A girl calling across au bon pain to her friend: "Yeah, I'm all right. Are you? You look sad."

new story published: the ghoul

My story, The Ghoul, is up on Everyday Weirdness today - it's in the spirit of Halloween!

graffiti

"Instead of trying harder, stop completely."

homo genius

Two young guys, who look like students, pass me in the street: "But the homo genius..." - "You mean genus." - "Right..."