Somewhat Less Than Thirty Pieces
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Inspiration
Somewhat Less Than Thirty Pieces was originally written for Task Nine of the 2007-8 SlingInk Eurofiction Competition. The prompt used was "Write a story about betrayal". It was placed 6th equal out of a total field of 57. The (unnamed) judge commented that it was "inspired and intelligent satire. Love it!"
Placings
Somewhat Less Than Thirty Pieces was longlisted for the March 2008 Cadenza competition.
Publications
I subsequently realised there was an opportunity for a gratuitous point-of-view switch in the story, so I inserted that before sending it off to The Right-Eyed Deer. Donna Gagnon-Pugh then made a further editorial suggestion, which resulted in the final paragraph being added. I was very pleased with this, as it brought the story - and, in fact the entire Dot Dash collection - to a tidy conclusion.
