In response to widespread public demand, I hereby enclose my entry in GAMES Magazine's Tale of the Tiles contest.
The rules, succinctly stated: Write a story using the 100 tiles in a Scrabble set -- no more, no less.
Entries were judged on cleverness, originality and humor. My entry is reprinted herewith:
Boulevard Diner, eleven-forty.
I down a hot cup of java.
It's too quiet.
As a gun barrel whacks my noggin,
I realize Dixie set me up.
|
This hard-boiled literary nugget was chosen as one of 10 runners-up from over 1500 entries, nabbing me a Deluxe Turntable Edition Scrabble set, a GAMES T-shirt, and the admiration of logophiles worldwide -- including SF Chronicle columnist
Jon Carroll.
