remember sea monkeys?

I like number two. Make of that what you will.

#1 gets the nod from me.  A lot to think about in that one—and I want to know more about him

#3 isn’t as bad as you made me expect.  terse, cinematic, perhaps a bit clichéd (i have a good grasp on understatement).  but it has something.

#1 feels like the beginning of something, but i’m not sure if that “something” is a longer story or a story-writing activity.  still, it sets a nice scene.

#2 actually had me giggling a bit over here.  mandolin, indeed.

I’ve got to go with #1.

I don’t know about Magic Rocks, but the Boy and I had an argument two weeks ago about what would happen if you swallowed one of those sponge-dinosaur-capsules that grow in water. 

And I like the second one.

well this is all very interesting.  thanks for voting.  it seems that what my story needed was more mandoline-playing sea monkeys, and maybe some exploding bikinis.  I keep overlooking how important those are for production values. 

I think, if you ate one of those grow-ey dinosaurs, it would produce unsightly and miscolored results of the most personal and distasteful sort.  Let me know how it goes, if you try it. I’m still getting over a bad case of spirograph vertigo.

i also vote for number #2.  number #1 is a fantastic picture as well, but its number #2 that i want to especially know more about.

I’m always amazed at what people like about what I write and what they don’t necessarily respond to as strongly.  I can never call it myself.  I like the madolin one too.