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Jan 5 04: the claw!
This just in off the Associated Press newswire: strange doings in Sheboygan. I’d have made this a Quark—you know, strange and/or charming—but for two factors: the first is Neil Gaiman’s take on the story, which is how I found it in the first place…
…[this] is a wonderful news story, and makes me wonder which genre the boy lives in. I mean, mysteriously getting into one of those toy-crane places means different things to someone in a horror story than it would to someone in a light and fluffy comedy or a medical drama. Right now it’s almost a locked room mystery.
The second factor is that I couldn’t let it pass without noting that the Duluth News Tribune has filed the story under “politics.” Your witty rationalizations thereof are welcome in the comments line.
Commentary
It is
a. a subsidized child care issue. The father should have left the child at day care instead of exposing him to the dangers of the piggly wiggly.
b. a global communication issue. If cell phones were more affordable - the father could have been watching his child whilst using a mobile instead of being tied to a pay phone.
c. a birth control issue. Perhaps “the stupid” should be federally mandated to not reproduce.
posted by Sari, Jan 8 04 1:07 PM
I figured it was because
“Getting into it seemed like a good idea at the time.”
applies equally well in both fields.
Incidentally, how perfect is it that this took place at the Piggly Wiggly? If you wrote this as a short story, your beta readers would insist that you take that part out because it’s such a bald contrivance.
posted by Andrew, Jan 9 04 12:41 AM
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