
Feature: The Suit by G.W. Thomas
I watched him traverse the crowded room. He seemed physically different. It was not his attire, for that was unchanged. He was in the same ice-cream white suit....
I have read lots of Lovecraft, and I didn't thing The Suit was Lovecraftian at all... a killer suit just doesn't seen to fit for me in the Lovecraftian genre, although the style does in a way match, there is no unspeakable blasphemous horror. Doesn't mean I didn't like the story, because I did like it.normsherman wrote:I'm a big fan of Lovecraft- this story very much fits that old form. Narrator runs into a strange circumstance or person, becomes obsessed with trying to figure things out and when he does he gets himself in trouble. They are usually set up like this, as if being interviewed. It's a great formula (and works even better when the narrator is onto some massive, multi-dimensional beast from hell living under the ocean).
As for the poem- yah, the idea of prose poetry confuses me too. This one seemed more like a poem on paper (ideas in three group lines) than it did in audio.
When I took a class, to be an actual bona fide poem, it needs a meter. Doesn't have to rhyme, but pretty words, rhyming or not, doesn't make a poem. That doesn't mean writing pretty words that mimic a poem is 'wrong' in any way, it just isn't technically a poem, but DrabbleCast isn't technically drabble, but hey, it still is a great program!Samuel McChord Crothers wrote:A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.