Um, yeah...

(Edited to remove the friends-lock, because it seems ridiculous to lock something when it's now openly available somewhere else.)

Last semester I found out the uni mag was doing a short story competition. I dug out one of the few half-way decent stories I've started AND finished and submitted it maybe a day before the deadline. This Tuesday I stumble across a copy of said magazine and discover that out of the 100 or so entries I made the shortlist of 15. They managed to spell my name wrong, but I so don't care :) I'm floating between elation and mortification: for some reason I'm physically incapable of reading my work on the published page.

So, in the spirit of being too embarrassed to read my own work back, (It's utterly unchanged, even though I can think of a thousand things I'd do different, including the title which was beta-suggested) and in the elation that some objective and un-biased stranger thinks I can write...

( major spoilers for Heroes part 1&2, in the form of my slash ep tag )

I'm gonna go hide under the bed now.