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Congrats Bo - I think the award went to the right guy !

Triton - thank you. You made my day !

I vote for :

-247

-252

-263

-266

-269

I vote for :

239 - Killing the Morrow

240 - Knit

264 - The Belonging Kind

266 - Little Grace of the House of Death

268 - I Only an Escaped to Tell Thee

Really hard to vote - though slightly easier in that it would be unseemly to vote for my own stuff ! I have to go for :

234 - Jagannath

243 - The Other Lila

247 - How I Crippled the World ...

265 - Pop Quiz

269 - Bright Lights

Good luck to everyone - some astounding art last year !

'Knit' was my favourite. It was creepy - something about the idea of the yarn-babies was very unsettling. And the yarn-mother at the end ? *shudder*

Goddamn this was a great story ! The thing I liked most was the reversal of the usual Lovecraftian trope. Y'know - 'Insignificant human exposed to the broad alien expanse of the true universe - human goes insane'. Here we had 'eldritch powerful alien transposed into a very small / mundane world, bec...

Freaking amazing all round. Amazingly scary post-apoc world with some great ideas in it. Norm really knocked the reading out of the park, and the music / sfx added some fantastic atmosphere. Loved it when I heard it first on Pod-Castle, only got better second time through.

I wish I had something deeper to say than 'That story was freaking amazing!' - but that's all I can come up with.
Freaking.
Amazing.

Maybe I'm being dense, but what do the notes mean? EALOU UTTON REED URDER I'll see that dense, and raise you one - what the heck happened at the end ? Was the 'guy' the 'girl' all along ? Was he possessed ? I didn't quite understand what happened there. LOVED the story, fantastic narration, creepy ...