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Yesterday, the email about the Bloody Scotland competition was sent out. They didn’t announce the overall winner, but did say they had already been contacted. They did announce the 19 runners up.

I’m not amongst them.

Normally, I wouldn’t complain about this. It happens, move on.

Except…

Except this story is genuinely the best thing I’ve ever written. Ever.

Long time readers will be familiar with this, but for the newbies, my reaction to the first draft of a story usually ranges from ‘It’s OK’, to ‘Oh dear God this is fucking appalling and I’m going to use every method I can think of to destroy my computer and, specifically, the hard drive so no-one will ever, ever know that I wrote this shit.’

So, you can imagine how it felt when I finished this and thought ‘It needs a bit of work, and a new title for sure, but apart from that this is really really good.’

Each revision only made it stronger.

And then it turns out it’s not even amongst the top 20 stories in a field of 230.

And I can’t make sense of that.

Which is where I want help.

Would anyone be willing to volunteer to read the submitted piece and give me honest feedback?

It doesn’t matter if you have already read earlier versions. In fact, it can only help.

I’m putting notes on this entry to private. If you want to read it, leave me a note with your email address, even if I already have it.

Will