Labors

Posted on June 5, 2003 in Writing

I don’t know why I’m fighting so hard to meet a deadline for a contest with a $5 gift certificate as the big prize, but I finished a first draft of a story tonight and will put the final polish on it over the weekend. The contest rules stated that the story had to take place in the course of one hour on a single day: it’s in honor of Bloomsday, June 16, the day on which the events of James Joyce’s
Ulysses takes place.

Five dollars….that pays for less than a third of the publisher’s price for the book. Good thing that I already own it.