SamPanPoe’s Micro-Fiction Roundup Pt.2- Results
May 9, 2009 in Wordsmoker Short Fiction
Thanks to SamuraiPandaPoetry for creating the MicroFiction Roundup- it’s his baby. Thanks also to everyone who contributed, every single one had something to recommend it, all were worthy indeed. Which made the task of choosing harder than I thought it would be- but it’s been a pleasurable challenge. I’ve read all the entries at least three times, and the finalists’ well over a dozen. Agonized a bit. But here goes:
In 1976, Warhol was beset by personal and professional turmoil, feeling snubbed by the “real” art world and unlucky in love. Studio 54 was a year away, but his coke-fueled acolytes and investors were busy assembling a cheap exploitation flick on which to slap his name: Andy Warhol’s Bad. It’s intriguing to think of Lucy’s TV best friend starring in a movie where a crying baby is thrown out a high-floor Manhattan window, and it almost came to be. But Vivian Vance schooled them: Sick thrills don’t pay my bills.
