Remember my red email day? Well, didn't take long for the Scientologists to decide that my story was good, but not good enough for the Writers of the Future Competition. Bit of a black edge to that email.
JK Galbraith came up with the idea of the bezzel, the amount by which the world is in profit whilst an embezzler has your money but the embezzled doesn't know. It's one of my favourite cod-scientific theories. Subversive comedy genius.
I think I can add the idea of a bezzel hangover; the despondency resulting from having the possibility of a win snatched away. Had I simply found out I'd been placed, I'd have been happy. However, to have received a call telling me I was in the last eight, talked about what it may mean, what they do for the winners, only for it to come to naught... You inevitably focus on what coulda been.
Maybe this is the anti-bezzel, the perceived negative that balances out the false positive of the bezzel itself, meaning the world is really left in balance after all. Socio-eonomic karma.
On a more positive note, you may recall the gauntlet I threw down to anybody reading these postings to write a science fiction story on the Bard. Well, I accepted my own challenge and here's the result, published by Daily Science Fiction. My second success with them; nice to have repeat business.
Back to the keyboard, I guess.
JK Galbraith came up with the idea of the bezzel, the amount by which the world is in profit whilst an embezzler has your money but the embezzled doesn't know. It's one of my favourite cod-scientific theories. Subversive comedy genius.
I think I can add the idea of a bezzel hangover; the despondency resulting from having the possibility of a win snatched away. Had I simply found out I'd been placed, I'd have been happy. However, to have received a call telling me I was in the last eight, talked about what it may mean, what they do for the winners, only for it to come to naught... You inevitably focus on what coulda been.
Maybe this is the anti-bezzel, the perceived negative that balances out the false positive of the bezzel itself, meaning the world is really left in balance after all. Socio-eonomic karma.
On a more positive note, you may recall the gauntlet I threw down to anybody reading these postings to write a science fiction story on the Bard. Well, I accepted my own challenge and here's the result, published by Daily Science Fiction. My second success with them; nice to have repeat business.
Back to the keyboard, I guess.
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