tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post8561792615596397767..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: The Kind of Face You Slash - Day 10: The Summer's Unthinkable Eventsbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-34310509707400748582012-10-10T15:16:01.037-04:002012-10-10T15:16:01.037-04:00Will - Thanks, but I was thinking more about my in...Will - Thanks, but I was thinking more about my intentional over-use of italics and parentheticals. Probably not much of a joke anyway.<br /><br />And why do I keep forgetting that I own SILVER SCREAM, and have only read a couple of stories from it?<br /><br />John - I thought about commenting about the darting firefly -- more about the darting light, but your point is sound, too -- but I felt like I'd be piling on.<br /><br />As for the Doughboy guess, you're dead on the money!bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-36817281768348087072012-10-10T14:27:10.853-04:002012-10-10T14:27:10.853-04:00He tilts it, catching the light, which darts like ...<i><b>He tilts it, catching the light, which darts like a crazed firefly.</b></i><br /><br />But when you catch a firefly it can't dart anywhere. Generally they just bumble around in your hand till you finally let them go. Unless you put it in a jar, maybe, one made of glass, so you can see inside.<br /><br />Do you <i>see?</i><br />Do <i>YOU</i> see?<br /><br /><i><b>Then, so very carefully and with loving slowness, he presses the glass into something soft and white.<br /><br />The camera is so tight the viewer can't see what he's pushing the glass into (but they suspect).</b></i><br /><br />Damn, don't tell me it's more of that awful Pillsbury Doughboy snuff. Rabid fan-fiction geeks really have a lot to answer for.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-11280807926470991372012-10-10T13:01:16.179-04:002012-10-10T13:01:16.179-04:00"Enough. My attempts to amuse myself while wr..."Enough. My attempts to amuse myself while writing about this story are probably aggravating the hell out of all of you."<br /><br />Actually, not at all! I was enjoying the poison-pen approach. <br /><br />A story in this vein that I enjoyed, however, is "The Answer Tree" by Stephen R. Boyett, in <i>Silver Scream</i>.Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.com