Um.

[wordwhacker]

So considering I'm a writer, and I like short stories, I don't read them NEARLY often enough. In an effort to rectify this (and scope out some possible places to submit You in the Mirror, after a substantial snipping session) I am reading some sample stories from a few lit mags.

I have found two such mags, and have randomly selected short stories from both to read. Both are written in the second person.

I do not like it, Sam I Am.

(For the record: my biggest pet peeve with the first one wasn't the tense/POV thing, amazingly enough. It was the giant deus ex machina that served as a big fiery ending with explosions (no, really!) which somehow managed to also wrap up absolutely nothing about the story.)

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[cassaclyzm.livejournal.com]

Couperin's Tomb was the first one I read. It left me... unsatisfied. (I will freely admit, however, that there were parts of it that I thought were effective.

Crummy Bunny was the second, and I found by the end of it that I didn't even really notice the second person P.O.V, which was surprising. I liked this one more than the last one, it had a more sardonic tone and had a more present narrative voice.