Smart Short Pulpy

[threemonkeys]

Damn - sick again. I'm over the worst of it, but my voice went away for a while there and it is still pretty croaky. I wonder where I could have picked that type of bug up....

As usual when recuperating, I have been reading short stories. This time mostly from a bundle of Asimov's I picked up at the last Phoenix meeting. I worked my way through them and then picked up ASIM #37. As I read it, I could feel my engagement levels rise. The general type of pulp magazine story was the same, but there was something a little more clever about these stories that gave them that edge - that extra quality kick. So, while being in fundamentally in the same space, the small press publication managed to have smarter stories than the professional mass market version. "Managed to" may not be the right words there - perhaps there is an inevitability to the conclusions that can be drawn.

Which is all a round about way of saying well done to editormum - it was a heck of a good note to end on.

Comments

[editormum.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words sir. From a seasoned reader of ASIM (and all the other stuff) as yourself, it means a lot!

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

ASIM is going to miss you. On the other hand, I have great expectations of what will come from your new ventures.

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

See, I didn't think it was a bug - I didn't feel sick or anything.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

In which case, I think I hate you just a little about now.

On the other hand - a lost voice has its plus sides - nobody ever questions how sick you are. I left a really croaky message for my boos yesterday to say I wasn't coming in - today she was all sympathy.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Hmmm "boos" for "boss" - I wonder if there was some subconscious association going on there.

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

So you hate me more then that i did the same, and stayed home just feeling a bit tired? Also, cause the voice thing lingers, people still feel sorry for you when you come back to work, for days.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

No - for using it to stay home - that makes you my hero.

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

well i felt tired! maybe i had a mild for of what you had!
Or ... i was just pissed off at work enough to use it to stay home.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Either way, you had your self preservation instincts turned on. Compare & contrast - I still felt like crap today and I went into work.

[girliejones.livejournal.com]

you did not!!! you better stay home tomorrow!!

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Well - for half a day anyway. I'll let how I feel in the morning decide the next actions.

[kesalemma.livejournal.com]

it's con crud. sounds like a few of us have it!

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

You too? Sorry to hear that.

[russellk.livejournal.com]

Hah hah! I didn't get the con crud. Yay! That's because I didn't go to the con. Sob.

Feel better soon!

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

You were missed at the con. However you don't have to miss the con crud - as I infect people and they infect others, it will make its way up the island to you so you can feel included.