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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[magnifi-cat.livejournal.com]

Which pieces did you read, poppet? (For the record, 2nd POV annoys the crap out of me, reminds me too much of those cheesy "choose your own adventure" books of my childhood).

And sorry I disappeared on you the other night, the cat disconnected my cable modem from the wall.

[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.