Congrats, y'all! smile I won't say where my story came in, but I do agree with most of the feedback. <G> It was an old story written before I really knew what I was doing, and I've learned better since then.

Some of the stuff the judges mentioned I still struggle with. smile What can I say? It was nice to get constructive criticism on that old story, and a comfort to obtain it from anonymous sources. There's freedom in the anonymity of both sides. According to the rules, they didn't know what story was mine or even if I submitted one, and I sure don't know who judged it! But the comments I recieved about craft dovetail with what I've learned in writing classes, so I'm happy.

Laura

“Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.”
--Thomas Moore

"Keep an open mind, I always say. Drives sensible people mad, I know, but what did we ever get from sensible people? Not poetry or art or music, that's for sure."
--Charles de Lint, Someplace to Be Flying