How about a 'Ink Polaroid writing' compo? The most entertaining short story in Stuart David's stylee wins. They would not have to be about B&S, just something funny or touching thats happened to you.
i think that's a great idea! there's been much talk on some writing lists i sometimes dip into about 'flsh fiction' or 'postcard poetry', which is essentially what ink polaroids are... i actually like the ink polaroids name best :-) i don't think we have to say 'something funny' or 'touching'. the great thing about writing like this is it's just the great embodiement of moments that happen... whatever they may be. Here's three that i've just had developed to get us going duke. --------- Heres one of me in my classroom. The pink thing on my shoulder is a flying pig. Its really an old piece of bone that I used to make the kids sit and draw, but one day Clare looked at it and said it looked like a flying pig. It really did too, so one lunchtime she painted it pink and now it sits on my desk and holds paintbrushes. This is one of Rozlyn pretending to paint the Boredom Or Fire Raisers, You Cant Have Both graffiti on a beach shelter on Troon prom. Id actually painted the slogan the night before, but we wanted the picture for the cover of a magazine. Rozlyn is a bit blurred because she kept moving her hair. A couple of years later some kids burnt the shelter down, and it was in the local paper about Fire Raisers going on an arson binge. I was going to tell the paper it was me who painted it and that it was nothing to do with the arson, but my brother told me not to. This is my classroom again, and over by the desk you can just see the only stereo cassette player in the school . It kind of lives in my classroom though because no one else uses it much. Its actually playing a tape of Tigermilk. The girls standing by the desk are called Becky and Ella, and the reason theyre laughing is that Cindy just said the tape sounds like Simon & Garfunkel on Speed. Im laughing too, which is probably why the picture is a bit blurred. Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ Tangents On-Paper: PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@mail.zynet.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister -----------------------------------------------------------------------