You'd think by now.

[mrissa]

Me: Oh! I have just figured out how to make a short story work!
timprov: It's about time!
Me: No, a specific one.
timprov: Ohhhhh.

Comments

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Hee!

(If you figure out the general case, let me know.)

[logovore.livejournal.com]

According to Dorothy Parker, you just have Oscar Wilde do it.

It is an open question whether this method is more limited by (A) limited availability of time machines, (B) limited audience for Parker-grade snark, or (C) Oscar Wilde's limited acquaintance with hockey.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

How can you even suggest C, when The Importance of Cross-Checking Earnest and An Ideal Goalie were such best-sellers here in the north?

[timprov.livejournal.com]

The superiority of The Importance of Cross-Checking Earnest over Pride and Prejudice With Zombies cannot be overstated.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

This, unfortunately, is so true.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Too large to fit in the margins of this lj post.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Hee again!

[logovore.livejournal.com]

Any given effective short story is uniquely associated with a family of elliptic curves?

Somehow that seems eerily plausible...