The spider spun her web, studiously ignoring the brooding human so intent upon her labours.
Suddenly resolute, the figure raced away, his wake almost dislodging her.
“What was that all about?”
“Nothing, Wallace,” she responded casually, dispatching her mate in an act of post-coital whimsy, unaware of the ironic parallel.
Derry man Perry McDaid is currently fiction editor with Liquid Imagination and on the board of silverpen.org. Widely published, his poems, stories, reviews, and articles have appeared in diverse and international magazines, anthologies, and websites. A prize-winner with short stories, poetry and articles, the Irishman’s work can be found both in hard copy and online. Eschewing demands for one “voice”, and spanning genres, he writes from many perspectives on subjects from the comic to the profound. He lives with his family beneath the mostly misty Donegal Hills, walking back roads where he can inhale the mystic inspiration of long-dead bards and druids to concoct the weird, wonderful, and downright disturbing.
I liked the piece and can appreciate parallelism so it’s 5 from me.
I do wonder though if the readers see your extra-long biography being allowed as unfair and have thus decided to punish your story by voting it down, which ironically is also unfair. The story seems better than what it’s getting in the votes department.
I would be interested to hear what others think.
There’s been a lot of pretty low voting lately. I’m not sure why!
I obviously thought this one deserved higher star ratings, too, since I picked it as story of the week.
This would be my pick as the story of the year.
I also do not care much for the long rambling bio, but the 50-W story website is not really about bios, it’s about interesting stories. This one is very, very interesting … so it gets 5-stars from me, and another star as being the best of the stories in the running for story of the year.