Bosca Dubh

Have you submitted your nominations yet for the storySouth Million Writers competition? Anyone who reads, writes, or publishes short stories online can nominate one story published in 2005 for the “O. Henry Prize of the Web”. And that means everyone, right?

According to Jack, who usually selects this one, the best part is the dinosaur playing hide-and-seek. He tries to hide behind a gas tank and a billboard, but he’s far too big and easily spotted. Luckily, Danny and the other kids decide to pretend they can’t see him, and the game is a success.

This is an odd story, if it’s a story at all. Its subtitle is “Seven Studies in the Efficacy of Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’”; and if poetry were a drug, the FDA would hardly approve it for long-term use based on this research project.

Photo challenges big and small, and why I like the small ones best.

Five: Smallest Photo, beneath the blue ocean, Big Empty, intransient, and Rooks.