🚀 go-pugleaf

rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) said: 
-neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher) writes:
-
->simply makes no sense. If you were prevented from posting dog stories to
->rec.pets.cats, would that be censorship?
-
-   Sure would, if the dog stories were relevant to rec.pets.cats. If you lack
-the depth of insight required to see that my stories _were_ relevant to     
-alt.good.news (albeit in a twisted fashion :-) then you shouldn't be reading
-alt.prose. 

Maybe the readers of alt.good.news don't want their good news in such a 
twisted fashion.  Maybe only slightly bent is what they want.

And, I saw what you meant as good news in "Smells Like ...", but the 
good news aspect of "Danielle" escaped me.  The heroine gets raped, 
takes a joy-less revenge and is then murdered.  Mind you, it wasn't
a bad story, but I fail to see where the "good" is.

I noticed that in both stories you had two people involved in the final
murder, one of whom "regretted" the murder, while the other seemed to 
enjoy it.  If you do this often enough it will become cliche.

And, no, it's not censorship; at least not until you find out if everything
you write will be rejected.  If you try something a little more "standard"
and get rejected, then you'll have cause for complaint.

-- 
     David Bedno		       	             drseuss@gorn.echo.com
"It was a beautiful, almost poetic way to cap what had been a textbook career
of brilliant, original mathematical insights punctuated with outbursts of
random, deeply unhinged violence."                - olin.shivers@h.cs.cmu.edu