Last week I got notification that my short story collection wasn’t a winner in the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series. A disappointment but not the end of the world. I knew it was a long shot. The winner was “Destroy All Monsters” by Greg Hrbek, who has an impressive literary resume that makes me look like a penny dreadful pulp writer in comparison.  (The title was also used for a 1968 Godzilla movie, so go figure what that prize-winning shot story collection is all about.) Why did I enter this contest that I have no hope in winning?

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