Comments on: Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention: Hoarding Colored Rags

By: The Fix | From the Podosphere: December 2008

The Fix | From the Podosphere: December 2008 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:22:18 +0000

[...] “Hoarding Colored Rags” by Jared Axelrod (read by Mike Swirsky) is another extremely short piece with a contrary final sentence. This is almost a companion piece to the Blackwell, in which a man is remembering his lover. It works because of the writing style and the simplest of narrative structure: a set-up followed by a fall. [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:52:41 +0000

Finally! A good flash. This one was great. The reader should have approached this one with much more swagger to really drive the point home. The ending could have been abbreviated even more with something like “Now piss off and don’t ruin my memories.” Of course it is MUCH easier to come up with a one-liner when somebody else has done the hard part. Conclusion… Bravo!

By: LaShawn

LaShawn — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:03:29 +0000

Ouch! Snap! Great flash!

By: scatterbrain

scatterbrain — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:41:26 +0000

Errr…yeah. One must wonder what the worst was like…

By: Martin R

Martin R — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:37:22 +0000

These flash pieces are like fine chocolates. I listen to each of them twice to make sure I haven’t missed anything.

By: Martin R

Martin R — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:36:47 +0000

Lovely! Good story and good narration.

By: SethW

SethW — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:37:51 +0000

A perfect world?

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:19:32 +0000

Faulty and fading memories have their usefulness too…

By: phignewton

phignewton — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:11:23 +0000

in interesting, despite its long history i feel like ‘cache’ is a word like ‘meh’ or ‘lol’ that doesn’t belong in spoken form outside the internet….