- Post of the Week #36
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Hydragenic - Layers, Cells, Constellations.
“‘Naah, it’s alright. I don’t worry much about the future.’
Good. When I was your age, I think, I worried all the time. We were all going to die. We had endless discussions about it at school. Our drama teacher acted out the ferocity of a nuclear blast by sitting us under a big pile of tables and chairs and pushing the whole lot over. Farcical, but the bruises it left were more than physical.”
This post was nominated by Mike.
Our judges said:
“Great observational writing: “Good. When I was your age, I think, I worried all the time. We were all going to die. We had endless discussions about it at school” reminds me SO much of the time when my 3rd year primary teacher sat us all down to ‘Discuss The Falklands
Conflict’ and twenty-five nine year olds quaked with fear.”
Your shortlister this week was Patita.
Your estimable judges for the week were Stray, Dandelion, Bob, and last week’s winner, Miss Vertigo.
Congratulations to the winner. Now let’s get back in the pool and start nominating again.
Cheers.
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Thanks very much, glad you liked it. This was one of the most satisfying things I’ve written recently. Blogging as cathartic self-discovery: I had no inkling, even half-way through writing it, that my motivation to visit Berlin was anything other than straightforwardly touristic.
Nice post, and nice judge comment there also. What IS IT about Primary teachers? Most recent doolally was getting an entire class to “Pray for Maddie”. Maybe if they stuck to their damn job, the kids wouldn’t be so illiterate and innumerate.