Literary Recognition, At Last!

I am very pleased to announce that I just won the Fast Fiction Contest at Writer's Resource Center for my piece "Blown." The prize is modest (the book The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing) but the intrinsic reward is priceless.

I apologize for succeeding at the expense of Bob Dylan, whom I do indeed admire and never find irritating. (Okay, replace "never" with "only sometimes."). When I first read the contest rule (story must include a number), I thought of the old Dilbert strip which quotes the famous "How many angels can fit on the head of a pin?" rhetorical question and concludes with Dogbert saying "I don't care what he says, the number is six!"

Rather than rip off Dilbert, I tried to think of other rhetorical questions for which the answer was a number. Which immediately brought "Blowin' in the Wind" to mind. Sorry, Bob.