Chris Pitch\'s story Procrasturbation won second prize in SCSU\'s very competitive fiction writing contest. There will be a reading on May 10th at 7:45 at SCSU in Engleman D253, the Common Room. It\'s in New Haven so anyone going to see Tim at Richter\'s later that night should go to the reading first!
Here is what the judge had to say about the story:
The story of two semi-lovable losers and the four-year-old who loves
them both, this piece succeeds through the confidence of its narration,
the strong characterizations of the two men, and the snappy dialogue.
WYSIWYG is the rule, too, in point-of-view. The intensity of Schmitty\'s
focus on the various processes related to smoking bowl after bowl of
pot not only helps to illuminate those processes for the reader, it
also convincingly renders the psychic and physical environments of the
expert toker and his mercenary dealer. In short order, the author
establishes a nicely balanced irony, an earnest and universal
desperation that will momentarily dispel the haze of the characters\'
otherwise casual, dudely demeanor.
