ANU short story comp winners

I am writing this post in between productive (ha) thesis writing, and there will be more to come as I get more of my thesis done (*cough-bullshit-cough*). Also, please excuse me for not getting posts up in the last month or so. Busy, lazy, etc.

Not a single genre story amongst them. Except may be if the genre is called boring, bwahahaha (I'm not bitter at all). No, seriously check out some of the stories, they are mostly good (my personal preferences have ruled out a few clangers). The winning entry is very clever. Overall, they are very good at achieving an emotional response, but I'm just not sure if I find them interesting. I like my stories to be interesting, not just clever. Perhaps I have a poor attention span and I need caffeine-infused stories to keep me interested, but in my defence I've read Shogun (James Clavell) and it takes 250 pages of fine print just to set the story. Sigh. Most likely the real reason is that I am being overly critical because they were direct competition and beat me! Hehe

Please enjoy and let me know what you think

http://www.anu.edu.au/dos/story_comp/short_story11winners.htm